§ 46.2-1067. Within what distances brakes should stop vehicle.
On a dry, hard, approximately level stretch of highway free from loosematerial, the service braking system shall be capable of stopping a motorvehicle or combination of vehicles at all times and under all conditions ofloading at a speed of twenty miles per hour within the following distances:
1. Passenger motor vehicles, except buses and antique vehicles, twenty-fivefeet.
2. Buses, trucks, and tractor trucks, forty feet.
3. Motor vehicles registered or qualified to be registered as antiquevehicles, when equipped with two-wheel brakes, forty-five feet; four-wheelbrakes, twenty-five feet.
4. All combinations of vehicles, forty feet.
5. Motorcycles, thirty feet.
(Code 1950, § 46-284; 1958, c. 541, § 46.1-278; 1968, c. 164; 1970, c. 28;1972, c. 3; 1989, c. 727.)
§ 46.2-1067. Within what distances brakes should stop vehicle.
On a dry, hard, approximately level stretch of highway free from loosematerial, the service braking system shall be capable of stopping a motorvehicle or combination of vehicles at all times and under all conditions ofloading at a speed of twenty miles per hour within the following distances:
1. Passenger motor vehicles, except buses and antique vehicles, twenty-fivefeet.
2. Buses, trucks, and tractor trucks, forty feet.
3. Motor vehicles registered or qualified to be registered as antiquevehicles, when equipped with two-wheel brakes, forty-five feet; four-wheelbrakes, twenty-five feet.
4. All combinations of vehicles, forty feet.
5. Motorcycles, thirty feet.
(Code 1950, § 46-284; 1958, c. 541, § 46.1-278; 1968, c. 164; 1970, c. 28;1972, c. 3; 1989, c. 727.)
§ 46.2-1067. Within what distances brakes should stop vehicle.
On a dry, hard, approximately level stretch of highway free from loosematerial, the service braking system shall be capable of stopping a motorvehicle or combination of vehicles at all times and under all conditions ofloading at a speed of twenty miles per hour within the following distances:
1. Passenger motor vehicles, except buses and antique vehicles, twenty-fivefeet.
2. Buses, trucks, and tractor trucks, forty feet.
3. Motor vehicles registered or qualified to be registered as antiquevehicles, when equipped with two-wheel brakes, forty-five feet; four-wheelbrakes, twenty-five feet.
4. All combinations of vehicles, forty feet.
5. Motorcycles, thirty feet.
(Code 1950, § 46-284; 1958, c. 541, § 46.1-278; 1968, c. 164; 1970, c. 28;1972, c. 3; 1989, c. 727.)
