U.K. Learn the Most Common Traffic Signs

Warning of a bend that a driver might find difficult to negotiate without slowing down and the severity of which cannot easily be seen by day or night.

No overtaking. The sign is used where forward visibility makes overtaking hazardous, and double white lines do not deal with the prohibition. No overtaking signs might also be used at road works.

The red cross means no stopping, not even to pick up or setting down passengers. The sign indicates a 24-hour clearway (usually on a rural road) or may be incorporated into other signs with the words No stopping.

This sign is used on the approach to a railway-level crossing equipped with gates or barriers. It is also used at a tramway crossing if barriers are provided.

This sign means no vehicles - except pedal cycles being pushed by hand.

Priority must be given to vehicles from the opposite direction on a narrow length of road.

End of dual carriageway. The sign indicates the resumption of two-way traffic on a single-carriageway road after a length of dual carriageway.

This is a regulatory No U-turn sign. It means that you are not allowed to make a U-turn.

The national speed limit for the type of road and class of traffic applies.

No entry for vehicular traffic, including pedal cycles (usually indicates the end of a one-way road where all traffic is travelling in the other direction)