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Reading Road Signs
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Sun Nov 20, 2011 4:01 pmby crr003
Where they put two signs on one pole, Roadcraft says read them "top down".
Is there any reference to this in pre-advanced driving books?
Re: Reading Road Signs
Posted:
Sun Nov 20, 2011 8:57 pmby Big Err
Chapter 4 of The Traffic Signs Manual
"1.28 Where two or more warning signs are
erected together, the sign relating to the hazard first
encountered should be placed uppermost"
Re: Reading Road Signs
Posted:
Sun Nov 20, 2011 10:16 pmby Mr Cholmondeley-Warner
Experience suggests it's a rule not followed 100% faithfully.
Re: Reading Road Signs
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Sun Nov 20, 2011 10:44 pmby Big Err
Mr Cholmondeley-Warner wrote:Experience suggests it's a rule not followed 100% faithfully.
Experience serves you correct
Re: Reading Road Signs
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Sun Nov 20, 2011 11:14 pmby brianhaddon
Big Err wrote:Mr Cholmondeley-Warner wrote:Experience suggests it's a rule not followed 100% faithfully.
Experience serves you correct
Which is possibly why when I looked in 'Know Your Traffic Signs', 'The Highway Code' and 'The Driving Manual' I could find no reference to it.
Regards
Brian Haddon
Re: Reading Road Signs
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Mon Nov 21, 2011 1:17 pmby foxtrot_mike
I was told (unnnofically) to also consider that the top sign is of higher importance / risk than the lower, regardless of which one comes first.
At the end of the day a road sign does not indicate severity of the unseen hazard so it goes down to driving speed for the road / conditions etc.
Re: Reading Road Signs
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Tue Nov 29, 2011 2:08 pmby Slink_Pink
I assume that the horizontal order is left to right?
Re: Reading Road Signs
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Tue Nov 29, 2011 3:26 pmby crr003
Slink_Pink wrote:I assume that the horizontal order is left to right?
I would assume they were simultaneous!
Do you have any examples, as I'm struggling to think of any?
Re: Reading Road Signs
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Tue Nov 29, 2011 9:32 pmby Big Err
crr003 wrote:Slink_Pink wrote:I assume that the horizontal order is left to right?
I would assume they were simultaneous!
Do you have any examples, as I'm struggling to think of any?
Low clearance warning signs on an arm of an advanced direction sign. One gives height in metric, the other gives it in imperial measurements.
That's my tuppence worth