Passengers alighted during a stop forced by another vehicle (2026)
Case 2250204637 / 2025-07-07 / Adjudicator Henry Michael Greenslade
Pretoria Road
Henry Michael Greenslade found that the vehicle had been forced to stop outside a school. Passengers getting out did not change the cause or length of the obstruction shown in the footage.
“this appears incidental to that forced stop because it ceased before the other vehicle moved of the way.”
Henry Michael Greenslade, case 2250204637
The authority relied on camera footage of a vehicle stopped on the restricted area outside a school. The vehicle's presence was not disputed, and passengers could be seen getting out.
Henry Michael Greenslade examined why the vehicle had stopped. The authority's footage showed another vehicle approaching on the wrong side of the road and blocking further progress.
The passengers finished alighting before the obstruction cleared. The adjudicator therefore treated their movement as incidental to the forced stop, rather than evidence that the driver had chosen or prolonged a stop for them. He could not find the contravention proved and allowed the appeal.
The reusable evidence is the full sequence before and after the stop: the obstruction, inability to proceed and departure opportunity. This decision does not establish a general passenger drop-off exemption on school keep-clear markings.
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