You are stopping at a stop sign but no stop line has been painted on the pavement. Where must your vehicle come to rest?

Why A is correct

The painted line is a convenience rather than the legal boundary. Where none exists, the rules supply surrogate limits in a specific order: stop before the crosswalk if one is marked, and failing that before entering the intersecting roadway. Stopping beyond either puts the front of your vehicle into space reserved for pedestrians and cross traffic. The habitual creep forward to improve visibility is precisely the movement that parks a bumper over the crosswalk — so stop correctly first, then creep if you genuinely must.

Why the other options are wrong

B. With the front wheels resting on the near edge of the travelled lane

Resting the wheels on the near edge reads the wrong edge of the wrong road. The duty is to remain behind the intersecting roadway, not merely clear of the lane.

C. With the front bumper just over the crosswalk, so you can see traffic coming

Nosing over the crosswalk trades away space pedestrians are entitled to for a marginal gain in sight lines. The view can wait; the crosswalk cannot be occupied.

D. Anywhere within a vehicle length of the sign itself

Proximity to the sign is irrelevant to where the limit lies. A sign can sit several metres back, and stopping at its base can leave a driver entirely across the legal line.

On the road

A driver stops with the bumper over an unmarked crosswalk and a parent pushing a pram has to walk around the front of the car. Nobody was hurt, and the stop was still wrong. Everybody in that picture was doing something they were entitled to do except the driver, because the crossing exists in law rather than in paint.

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