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General Category => General Discussion => Topic started by: Hope on July 31, 2016, 09:10:48 AM

Title: How's your knowledge of continental road signs?
Post by: Hope on July 31, 2016, 09:10:48 AM

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-36925675

I got the first couple right, but from then on it was downhill.

Title: Re: How's your knowledge of continental road signs?
Post by: Harrowby Hall on July 31, 2016, 09:30:04 AM

Thanks for this Hope. I'm in SW France at the moment and I suppose I should be aware of these signs.

I got two wrong - but since I am not in Turkey or Germany I suppose I should be relieved. As an exercise it is interesting but how many motorists from Britain will be going to Turkey or Ukraine? I ask this because it says that motorists at Newhaven were shown these signs.

There is one sign - found all over France - which too many British drivers identify incorrectly. Failing to understand it could cost them their lives, their health or their no-claims discount:

It is a triangular sign with a red cross (X) on a white background. Many people think that it means "cross roads" and assume that since they are on a major road they can just continue.

Wrong.

It means "give way to vehicles on your right".

Title: Re: How's your knowledge of continental road signs?
Post by: jeremyp on July 31, 2016, 12:23:20 PM

I got two wrong but if I knew the Turkish for bus, I would have got that, also the 10 metre thing was a 50/50 and I guessed the German one.

The third one, you should have got. It was identical to the British equivalent.