46.2-1067 - Within what distances brakes should stop vehicle. - Virginia Statutes

§ 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.)