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A traffic warning sign is a type of traffic sign that indicates a hazard ahead on the road. Unused traffic signs in Austria Most countries post signage, known as traffic signs or road signs, at the side of roads to impart information to road users. ...
In most countries outside of North America, they often take the shape of an equilateral triangle with a thick red border and a white or yellow background. World map showing North America A satellite composite image of North America. ...
In the People's Republic of China, however, they appear with a black border and a yellow background. In Sweden, Serbia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, Greece, Finland, the Republic of Macedonia and Poland they have a red border with a yellow background. This is due to the weather, as it is easier to see a red/yellow sign in the snowy weather then a red/white sign. The polar bear warning sign on Svalbard recently changed from displaying a black bear on white background to a white bear on black background (both sign are/were triangular with a red border). Anthem Serbia() on the European continent() Capital (and largest city) Belgrade Official languages Serbian written with the Cyrillic alphabet1 Government Parliamentary republic - President Boris Tadić - Prime Minister Vojislav Koštunica Establishment - Formation 8th century - Independence c. ...
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In the United States,Canada, Mexico, Thailand, Australia, Japan, Philippines, and Malaysia warning signs are black on yellow and usually diamond-shaped, and construction signs are black on orange. Ireland also adopted these standards, diverging from the standards of the rest of Europe. Some other countries also use these standards for some signage.
Warning signs in different shapes
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Warning signs
Warning signs can indicate any potential hazard, such as:
General Caution
 Non-specific warning to pay attention, the word "Caution," often for ambiguous reasons. Image File history File links 1_1_54. ...
Obstacles Diamond-shaped with reflectors are placed at point of curbs, dividers, or other lane obstacles. Rectangular signs with diagonal stripes indicate solid objects such as barricades, bridge abutments, utility poles or natural obstacles near the roadway. Left side obstacles are marked with stripes running high to low, left to right; right side obstacle signs use stripes running high to low, right to left; in a sense akin to International symbol of arrow pointing down toward side toward roadway.
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Things Near or Crossing the Roadway Warns of wild animals (moose, bear, elk, deer, reindeers, polar bears, camels, wallabies, kangaroos, aligators, etc) or farm animals (cows, horses, ducks, sheep) that may stray onto the road. Also equipment (tractors, forklifts, snowmobiles, golf carts, bicycles) crossing or traveling along the road. In the United States, a SHARE THE ROAD plaque is sometimes placed below these warning signs when used in this manner.
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Road works or construction Indicates road works (construction), poor roads, or temporary conditions ahead on the road including: flagmen, survey crew, single-lane, detour, bridge out, utility crew ahead, blasting area, bump, dip, frost heaves, flooding (or "High water"), soft shoulder, uneven pavement, freshly oiled road, loose gravel, smoke on road, trucks entering, etc.(note that some high water signs are posted to alert drivers of a flood prone area and don't accually mean that there is a flooded section of road ahead)
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Chevron Arrows
 Signs indicating a sharp bend on a road. Used to indicate unexpected bends in the road, some being continuous, others being sharp-ended (right-angle turns). Left curve, right curve, series of curves. May also indicate direction of intersections along the upcoming curve. Also used to indicate "merge" with other traffic, as for an on-ramp of a limited-access highway. Wikipedia does not have an article with this exact name. ...
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Highway in Pennsylvania, USA The Pan-American Highway, in the Peruvian town of Máncora, where it serves as the main street. ...
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Dangerous bend |
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Series of
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Tunnels Used to indicate tunnels, where lights are usually required, and a general change in the light level. May also indicate low ceiling clearance. Truck drivers should also watch for prohibited cargo signs (e.g., Hazmat, propane, explosives) upon approach to tunnels.
Bridges Used where traffic may be constricted to a narrow bridge, or where the bridge may have a movable span closed to vehicles while boats pass (e.g., drawbridge or floating bridge). Also used for underpass to indicate low overhead clearance. Drawbridge at the fort of Ponta da Bandeira; Lagos, Portugal A drawbridge is a type of movable bridge typically associated with the entrance of a castle, but the term is often used to describe all different types of movable bridges, like bascule bridges and lift bridges. ...
A pontoon bridge Pontoon bridges are floating bridges supported by floating pontoons with sufficient buoyancy to support the bridge and dynamic loads. ...
Traffic Lights
 Sign warning of a tunnel and traffic lights in Switzerland. Used to indicate traffic lights, present when it is difficult to see that a traffic light may already be showing red, to warn a driver to prepare to slow down. May be supplemented with flashing light or lighted sign when light is red or turning red. Download high resolution version (500x602, 125 KB) Wikipedia does not have an article with this exact name. ...
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Traffic lights will sometimes differ where there are several lanes of traffic. ...
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Warning Signs for Regulatory Signs As for traffic signals, above, some "stop" or "yield" signs may require additional warning or reminder, especially in dense areas or where the sign has been added recently.
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Level Crossings and Intersections Warns drivers of road crossings at even level (crossroads, T-intersection, forks (Y-intersection), rotary/roundabout). May also indicate "hidden driveway" intersecting the road ahead. (Compare with bridges/overpasses/viaducts). | Examples of junction warning signs used in the Republic of Ireland: |
Crossroads with
a major road |
Junction with
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Staggered crossroads with
roads of equal importance |
Junction at corner
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Junction with
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Lane Starts/ends Indicates when a multilane highway is being narrowed, a passing lane is ending, or where the road is widening or a passing lane starting. Another type is used to indicate central "two-way" left turning lane in center of roadway. Warning signs may also warn of "Highway ends", where the road changes class or type. Also used for "dead end", "not a through street" or "no outlet" roadways. Image File history File links Photo of an American No Outlet sign, indicating that all roads connecting further on this road cannot exit anywhere else except back to this point. ...
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No Passing Zone Vertical yellow sign in triangular shape (in U.S.) to supplement solid yellow lane stripe where it is dangerous to overtake another vehicle, especially where roadway may be obscured by snow or other precipitation.
Pedestrians Used to warn drivers of people walking in the street. Also used to warn of children playing, playgrounds, bicycle area, deaf child, blind pedestrians, and thickly settled zones where pedestrians may enter the road.
In California, United States near the Mexican border, there are warning signs showing a running family. This is to warn motorists to look out for illegal immigrants who try to escape authorities by running through freeway traffic.[1] Official language(s) English Capital Sacramento Largest city Los Angeles Area Ranked 3rd - Total 158,302 sq mi (410,000 km²) - Width 250 miles (400 km) - Length 770 miles (1,240 km) - % water 4. ...
The border between Mexico and the United States spans four U.S. states, six Mexican states, and has over twenty commercial crossings. ...
For the 1983 Genesis song, see Illegal Alien (song) Illegal immigration refers to migration across national borders in a way that violates the immigration laws of the destination country. ...
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Schools
 School Zone sign with warning light For school zones (slow down), student crossings (pointed at top), crossing guards or signals ahead. Image File history File linksMetadata Size of this preview: 800 × 600 pixel Image in higher resolution (2048 × 1536 pixel, file size: 364 KB, MIME type: image/jpeg) A w:School zone speed limit sign and warning light in w:Calabasas, California, United States, on the southern end of the zone...
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Warning upon approach to where firefighters may be entering the road with fire engines or other emergency apparatus, where other drivers will have to stop and wait until they pass. A fire station is a building or other area set aside for storage of firefighting apparatus i. ...
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A fire apparatus, fire engine or fire truck or fire appliance usually refers to a vehicle designed to fight fires. ...
Oncoming Traffic Used to warn people of oncoming traffic; shown when a motorway becomes a dual carriageway or a normal road without a central reservation or median. Motorway symbol in UK, France and Ireland. ...
This early German Autobahn uses a dual carriageway design. ...
The second proper album of Beth Orton, Central Reservation helped Orton build on the success of her debut Trailer Park. ...
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Used to warn people of level crossings ahead. In most countries a red triangle warning sign is used, with various pictograms for unguarded crossings, crossings with manual gates, and automatic level crossings. These pictograms are also used in Ireland albeit on an amber diamond sign. In the United States the actual crossing is marked with crossed "Railroad Crossing" sawbuck signs (Stop, look, listen) and possibly lights, bells, and barriers. The term level crossing (also called a railroad crossing, railway crossing, train crossing or grade crossing) is a crossing on one level (at-grade intersection) — without recourse to a bridge or tunnel — of a railway line by a road, path, or another railroad. ...
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Falling Rocks Used to indicate the hazards of fallen or falling rocks on the road ahead. May be words or pictographs. May be "Fallen rock", "falling rock", or "rock slide" areas posted as such. In Italy the words may be "caduta sassi" or "caduta massi". In France "chûte des pierres". In Mexico "derrumbes", which is also a classification for the potency of certain magic mushrooms from Oaxaca. Catedral de Santo Domingo The Free and Sovereign State of Oaxaca or simply Oaxaca is one of the 31 states of Mexico, located in the southern part of Mexico, west of the Isthmus of Tehuantepec. ...
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The Unexpected For example, a warning sign with the image of an aircraft in the middle of it indicates an airport or airfield, where drivers should be prepared for low-flying aircraft.
General dangers are signalled by placing a black exclamation mark in the middle of the red triangle.
Road conditions "Slippery when wet", warnings for motorcyclists of "grooved pavement", "Open joints on bridge", "Icy Road", "Bridge freezes before roadway," also "bump" or "dip" ahead (not related to construction). Truck drivers will need to pay attention to "Steep grade" warnings (or "Down grade, use lower gear"), sometimes posted with the percent grade (e.g., 5 percent), but they may be relieved to see "Runaway truck escape" near the bottom of the hill! The UK has a sign warning of "Adverse camber" on a curve. Also "Loose gravel", "Soft shoulder", "Speed hump", and "Watch for Ice."
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Side Wind Flying socks, as indicated by a windsock on red triangle or yellow diamond signs, indicate locations where a strong side wind may cause the trajectory of the moving vehicle to change drastically, perhaps even "flying" across lanes, causing an accident. A windsock is a large, conical, open-ended tube designed to indicate wind direction and relative wind speed. ...
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Slow Down
 "Slow down" sign in China. Used at least in U.S. and China, this sign advises drivers to slow Wikipedia does not have an article with this exact name. ...
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Merge To Stay With Through Traffic
 "Thru traffic merge left" sign in Los Angeles. In the United States, there is special signage for lanes that are about to exit, so that drivers who wish to remain on the main road have adequate time to merge. All such lanes are sometimes indicated by special striping ("alligator stripes") and the sign, "Thru Traffic Merge Left" (or right). On freeways, the green directions sign for the exit ramp may have the additional notation, "Exit Only," and should have black letters on a yellow background for emphasis. Image File history File links Thrutrafficmergeleft. ...
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☡ The Unicode character ☡ (U+2621) is means "Caution sign". It is in the Miscellaneous Symbols plane. Unicode is an industry standard designed to allow text and symbols from all of the writing systems of the world to be consistently represented and manipulated by computers. ...
The Miscellaneous Symbol plane of Unicode (2600–26FF) contains various glyphs representing things from a variety of categories: Astrological, Astronomical, Chess, Dice, Ideological symbols, Musical notation, Political symbols, Recycling, Religious symbols, Trigrams, Warning Signs and Weather. ...
Warning Signs with lights Some warning signs have flashing lights to alert drivers of conditions ahead or remind drivers to slow down. In Britain, they are called warning light.
Evacuation Routes Some areas have special evacuation route signs that are to be followed in case of certain disasters. The signs point to routes either to safety or to less danger. Image File history File linksMetadata Vol. ...
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Emergency evacuation is the movement of persons from a dangerous place due to the threat or occurrence of a disastrous event. ...
Mount Rainier is a stratovolcano in Pierce County, Washington, located 54 miles (87 km) southeast of Seattle, Washington, in the United States. ...
Lahar from a March 1982 eruption of Mount St. ...
Emergency evacuation is the movement of persons from a dangerous place due to the threat or occurrence of a disastrous event. ...
Evacuation signs are common in areas where there is a high risk of dangers such as flash flooding, volcanic activity and lahar, tsunami, hurricane and storm surge. A flood (in Old English flod, a word common to Teutonic languages; compare German Flut, Dutch vloed from the same root as is seen in flow, float) is an overflow of water, an expanse of water submerging land, a deluge. ...
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Lahar from a March 1982 eruption of Mount St. ...
The tsunami that struck Malé in the Maldives on December 26, 2004. ...
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Warning signs at other sites Warning signs are also found on other potential dangerous sites. At the base of electricity pylons or fences of substations or radiotechnical equipment with open parts leading high voltage, there are always warning signs, warning of the high voltage. Other warning signs can be found at the top of inclines. An also very common warning sign is a sign warning of feared dogs. The design of this sign can vary.
See also Hazard symbol The skull and crossbones, a common symbol for poison. ...
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