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Module 5 of 26

Limits

These look like the other prohibition signs and behave like them: the number is a maximum, and exceeding it is an offence whatever the traffic around you is doing.

Numbers inside a red ring. Each one is a maximum you may not exceed, and the trick is knowing which quantity each sign is measuring.

Red ring, black number, maximum

A white disc with a broad red rim and the number 60 in black.

A number in black on a white disc with a red rim is a maximum. It replaces the general limit for that stretch of road, and it applies from the sign until another sign changes it.

The same number in white on a blue disc is the opposite — a minimum. Colour is the only thing separating them, which is precisely why the test asks.

Where people lose the markReading any circular number sign as a speed limit. Blue commands a minimum; red forbids exceeding a maximum.

The rest of this lesson

  • Four different quantities
  • Mass and axle massload are not the same
  • Length includes the trailer

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