Traffic merges onto main carriageway sign

What it means

Your road joins the main carriageway ahead.

The symbol shows your road joining a main carriageway. You will need to merge with the traffic already on it.

Match your speed to the traffic, look for a safe gap and merge in turn.

Where you'll see it

Near slip roads and junctions where one road merges into another.

Rules to know

• The sign warns that traffic merges onto the main carriageway.

  Know Your Traffic Signs, p. 10

Common mistakes

• Mistake: Stopping at the end of the merge.

  Instead: Adjust your speed early and merge into a gap; stopping can be dangerous.

Test yourself

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What does this sign mean?

• ATraffic merges onto the main carriageway ahead
• BLow-flying aircraft or sudden aircraft noise
• COther danger: the plate says what
• DSlow-moving vehicles ahead

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