End of motorway sign

What it means

You are leaving the motorway. From this point, motorway regulations no longer apply.

It's placed where the motorway ends, on the main carriageway or on the exit slip road. A version with a distance plate warns that the motorway ends ahead.

After the sign you're on an ordinary road again, which pedestrians, cyclists and slower vehicles may use, and the speed limit may change.

Rules to know

• The sign is located where the motorway ends, on either the main carriageway or the exit slip road.

  Know Your Traffic Signs, p. 104

• A version on the main carriageway shows the distance to the end of the motorway.

  Know Your Traffic Signs, p. 104

Common mistakes

• Mistake: Carrying on at motorway speed after the sign.

  Instead: Look for the speed limit signs on the road ahead: the limit may be lower.

Test yourself

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What does this sign mean?

• AMotorway regulations end here.
• BWarns of a level crossing ahead with no gate or barrier.
• CMotorway regulations apply from this point.
• DWarns of a side road joining your road ahead.

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