Zimbabwe road rules covering waiting and parking — 3 rules.
You MUST NOT wait or park on yellow lines during the times of operation shown on nearby time plates (or zone entry signs if in a Controlled Parking Zone). Double yellow lines indicate a prohibition of waiting at any time even if there are no upright signs. You MUST NOT wait or park, or stop to set down and pick up passengers, on school entrance markings when upright signs indicate a prohibition of stopping.
Use off-street parking areas, or bays marked out with white lines on the road as parking places, wherever possible. If you have to stop on the roadside :
• Look for a space you can safely get your car into without hitting another car. It's best to find a space that's a few feet (a meter or so) longer than your car. • Pull up even to the front car. If your cars are different lengths, line up the back of your car with the back of the front car as best you can. You don't have to be exact here. • Stop. • While stopped, turn your wheel all the way to the left. ALL THE WAY. Don't move forward or back while doing this! Keep your foot on the brake! • Turn around and look out the back of your car. • Begin backing up. Your car should start turning into the spot. Don't turn your wheel away from the all-the-way-left position! • Stop backing up when the right-front corner of the rear car is in the exact middle of your rear windshield. If you imagine a line extending backwards from your car along its centerline, you stop when the right-front corner of the rear car reaches that line. • While stopped, turn your wheel back to the middle position. Keep your foot on the brake! • Back up slowly until your car just barely clears the front car, then stop again. • STOP. • Turn your wheel all the way to the right. All the way! Stay stopped while you do this. Keep your foot on the brake! • Now keep backing in. Don't turn your wheel away from the all-the-way-right position! • Once your car is parallel, STOP and then turn your wheel to face forwards again.
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