Keep clear box - help settle this argument

Hi,

We are having an argument regarding this. There is this keep clear box on the a busy main road with a camera facing onto that stretch of road. My friend says we can't go and wait in that box to do a right turn from a side road onto the main busy road and we will get a ticket. I disagree, how else would you be able to turn right without doing in two sections. Who is right?

Reply 1

It's****ingWOODY

Keep clear boxes generally aren't to be stopped in unless it's not possible to avoid doing do, whereas with a yellow box junction you're allowed to stop in it if oncoming traffic is preventing you from turning right. However, a keep clear box is generally advisory in the name of courtesy and not mandatory, so if you happen to stop in one you won't be penalised; whereas a box junction is legally enforceable.