Mandatory traffic signs

2024 Author: Erin Ralphs | [email protected]. Last modified: 2024-02-19 11:42

To get a driver's license and drive around the city in your own car, you must first learn the signs and current traffic rules. Without knowing them, you will not be able to get a driver's license in the traffic police, which is why driving schools pay special attention to the topic of studying road signs. Mandatory signs are often of particular difficulty, some drivers for some reason do not pay attention to them, considering them additional.

What are road signs?

The road sign is a graphic design created in accordance with existing state standards. It is installed next to the road to provide drivers, pedestrians and other road users with the information they need to travel safely on existing highways.

Signs play a huge role in ensuring safe traffic onroads, with their help, drivers can learn about dangerous sections of highways, where it is necessary to slow down due to a high risk of an accident, where overtaking is allowed and where it is not allowed. They also perform a number of important functions.

Mandatory traffic signs

These signs are mandatory, with the exception of cases when traffic is regulated by traffic police inspectors. If you don't know what prescriptive signs look like, they are circular in shape with white graphics on a blue background and tell drivers to do certain things.

The most commonly used character is 4.1.1. "Going straight." According to it, the driver can only move in this direction, while the effect of the sign is not relevant for route vehicles (bus, trolleybus, tram). It operates from the place where it is installed to the first intersection, in the zone of its action it is allowed to turn right into the adjacent territories and into the courtyard.

What should you do if you see this sign?

Regulating road signs 4.1.2-4.1.6 have a similar meaning, only in this case it is allowed to move in the directions indicated by the arrows. Those road signs that indicate a left turn also allow you to make a U-turn, in some cases signs with different configurations of directional arrows are used.

It should be remembered that route vehicles may ignorethese marks. The latter will operate at the intersections of the highways in front of which they are installed. It is worth keeping an eye on which signs are installed on the roadway, you need to remember that they can also restrict movement in one direction or another.

Varieties of prescriptive signs

Separately, it is necessary to highlight the signs with which drivers can see obstacles on the road and go around them, guided by arrows indicating the direction. At the same time, the detour, according to the rules, must be made exactly in the direction indicated by the arrows.

These prescriptive safety signs are usually installed either next to an obstacle, in some cases they are placed on the extra element of the roadway itself. If necessary, guide pedestals or racks with signs indicating the desired direction of movement are installed.

Roundabout

There are prescriptive signs that are installed on the most complex elements of highways, for example, 4.3. "Circular motion". According to this sign, movement is allowed in the direction indicated by the arrows. It is installed before all entrances to intersections where a similar traffic pattern operates.

Beginner drivers quite often make a mistake when faced with this sign. If a motorist sees him before a roundabout, he does not have any traffic priority. In this case, it is aboutintersection of equivalent roads, where the well-known rule of "right hand" applies.

Additional elements of the road

In large metropolitan areas, there are other elements on the roads that must be considered when moving by car. In particular, we are talking about the “Bicycle Path” sign, according to which the movement of mopeds and bicycles is carried out along a special lane allocated on the highway. In some cases, pedestrians can also move along this path, drivers should be aware of this. The sign is installed at the very beginning of the track, it is valid for all road users until the nearest intersection.

The “Pedestrian path” sign notifies drivers that only pedestrians are allowed to move on a dedicated section of the carriageway. It is usually installed at the very beginning of the road, its effect extends to the nearest intersection with the motorway. Drivers are not allowed to enter this area, it is severely punished.

Speed limit

There are mandatory signs that limit the speed of movement on motorways and remove this restriction. These are those that indicate the minimum speed at which a motorist must move along the highway (or row in it) on which he is located.

The driver must move at a speed, the value of which must be at least the number indicated on the sign, but not more than the maximum value for the highway on which he is. Sign 4.6 takes effect from the very beginning of the zonerestrictions and ends at the location of another sign - 4.7.

Signs for special vehicles

Specially for vehicles that are designed to carry dangerous goods, there are dedicated prescriptive traffic signs. With their help, the drivers of these vehicles can get directions on exactly where they can go. These signs are installed before the intersections of major and not very highways.

All vehicles carrying such substances must be equipped with special signs. This vehicle must be driven with all necessary precautions to prevent the leakage of harmful substances and their spread throughout metropolitan areas.

Driver responsibility

Mandatory signs of traffic rules are one of the main ones used in Russia. For violation of traffic rules, each driver bears a certain responsibility. For a simple violation, the driver will have to pay a fine of 500 rubles. If the driver makes a U-turn or turns left in the zone of the prohibition sign, the fine can be up to 1,500 rubles.

If a driver breaks the rules and finds himself in a lane reserved for buses and other route vehicles, the fine in this case can be up to 3,000 rubles (depending on the city of residence). That is why the driver needs to monitor whether there are prescriptive signs on the highway he is driving on.

Somebreak the rules and find themselves on one-way roads, while moving in the direction opposite to the movement of the main stream. Then the driver will have to pay a fine - 5 thousand rubles, or the inspectors have the right to deprive him of his driver's license for 6 months.

If desired, the driver has the right to challenge the decision made by the traffic police inspectors in relation to him. In some cases, the appeals process takes a long time, so many prefer to pay the fine quickly and keep driving.