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Regulation 5 Restriction on the construction of overrun areas

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Where an overrun area is constructed or maintained in a highway–

(a)

no vertical face of any material forming that area shall exceed 6 millimetres measured vertically from top to bottom of that face;

(b)

the slope of that area shall not exceed 15 degrees measured between an imaginary line extending the general line of the slope of that area to the surface of the carriageway and the surface of the carriageway where it is intersected by the imaginary line; and,

(c)

that area shall not be so constructed or maintained that an imaginary vertical line measured from the base of any upstanding face intersects an imaginary line extending the general line of the slope of the area more than 15 millimetres above the base of that upstanding face.