Types of advertisements and signs posing road safety threats

The main types of advertisements and signs which are likely to pose a threat to public safety are: (a) Those which obstruct or impair sight lines at corners, bends or at a junction or at any point of access to a road. (b) Those which, by virtue of their size or siting (orientation/angle to road), would obstruct or confuse a road user's view or reduce the clarity or effectiveness of a traffic sign or traffic signal, or those which would be likely to distract road users because of their unusual design. (c) Signs which leave insufficient clearance on or above any part of the road or footpath, or insufficient lateral clearance for vehicles on the carriageway. (d) Those which are located so as to impair the safety of any person looking at them because there is no protection from moving vehicles or where the footpath is narrow at the point where the public stop to look at them.