Know your traffic signs

Knowing your traffic signs can be a matter of life and death - yours or somebody else's. It takes a wide variety of signs, signals and road markings to convey quickly and accurately the wide range of information that drivers need. Although the Highway Code shows most of the commonly used signs which are prescribed by the Traffic Signs Regulations, it does not give a comprehensive explanation of our signing system. The aim of this booklet, therefore, is to illustrate and explain the vast majority of traffic signs the road user is likely to encounter.