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812 MOTOR VEHICLES (DRIVING) REGULATIONS, 2017 REG. 21

19. Level crossings
(1) Rail-borne vehicles shall have over-riding priority at all unmanned level
crossings.
(2) A driver shall slow down when approaching a railway crossing and
shall—
(i) not park the vehicle within the barriers of a railway crossing;
(ii) not overtake within the barriers of a railway crossing; and
(iii) keep to the left of the roadway.
(3) At a guarded railway crossing, no motor vehicle shall enter the crossing
after the gates or barriers have been closed or have started to close or when the
vehicular traffic is facing red light signal.
(4) At an unguarded railway crossing,—
(a) a motor vehicle shall enter the crossing only after ensuring that no
rolling stock is in sight; and
(b) the driver of a bus, including a school bus, a goods vehicle, a tractor
trolley carrying farm labour or goods and a vehicle carrying
hazardous, flammable or dangerous materials, shall stop at the
approach of the railway crossing and the driver of the vehicle shall
cause the attendant or any other person in the vehicle to walk up to
the level crossing to ensure that no rolling stock is approaching from
either side, and the attendant or such other person shall guide the
driver across such level crossing:
PROVIDED that where no such attendant or other person is available
in the vehicle, the driver of the vehicle shall safely stop the vehicle
on the roadside, a light from the vehicle and walk up to the crossing
to see and ensure that no rolling stock is approaching from either
side before starting to cross the level crossing.
20. Entering a tunnel
(1) The driver shall switch on the dipped lights before entering a tunnel.
(2) No driver shall overtake, make a U-Turn or drive backwards inside a
tunnel.
(3) No driver shall stop or park the vehicle within a tunnel unless absolutely
unavoidable and, in such situation, switch on the hazard warning lights of the
vehicle and also place reflective traffic warning triangles as specified in clause (c)
of sub-rule (4) of rule 138 of the Central Motor Vehicles Rules, 1989, at a distance
of twenty metres each from the vehicle in the front of, and behind, the vehicle.
21. Vehicles going uphill to be given precedence
(1) On mountain roads and steep roads, where the road is not sufficiently
wide to allow the motor vehicles to cross each other freely, the driver travelling
downhill shall—