Are you king of the road or a highway half- wit?
DO you know your Give Ways from your One Ways? Can you tell a T-junction sign from a Turn Left symbol?
Last week it was revealed that 80% of drivers struggle to identify road signs.
More than a third of those on the road failed to recognise some of the most frequently-used signs.
Car insurance firm Ingenie called for the Highway Code, driving theory and hazard perception to be taught in schools to improve road safety.
Ingenie chief executive officer Richard King said: “It’s worrying that even experienced drivers aren’t showing basic Highway Code knowledge, which every driver should have to keep themselves and other road users safe.
“If schools introduce the Highway Code and hazard perception to pupils before they reach driving age, we can build a generation of better drivers.”
So how well do you know your road signs? We’ve compiled a list of 20 and have left space to write in your answers, so see how many you can identify. WHETHER or not you know your road signs, sometimes they’re not to be trusted…
In 2008, the UK Government sent a road sign to a Welsh language expert for translation. They received an email back in Welsh so attached the text to the sign. Sadly, the email was an out-ofoffice reply and translated as: “I am not in the office at the moment. Send any work to be translated.”
Cyclists between Cardiff and Penarth in 2006 were left confused by a bilingual road sign. It read “Cyclists dismount” in English, with “Llid y bledren dymchwelyd” in Welsh beneath it. That translated roughly as “bladder infection”.
Wales-based building company David McLean put up a sign apologising to residents in Bridge of Don, Aberdeenshire, for ongoing work in 2006. Locals were baffled, though, as the sign included a statement written in Welsh, rather than the local dialect of Doric.
Oxford residents reacted with anger and a council official was forced to apologise in 2014 after a sign said a road would be closed for three days in “Septermeber”. One furious local blasted: “It annoys the living daylights out of me and I hope someone’s cheeks are flushing red with embarrassment.”