Which answer identifies all drivers who violated the stop rule?

Explanation

The drivers of all the vehicles.

The round blue sign with a red border and a cross is "stopping prohibited"; that is, neither parking nor even a brief halt. The supplementary plate beneath it, with an arrow pointing both up and down, announces that you are inside the sign's zone of effect and that the prohibition continues both before the sign and after it.

All three vehicles in the picture — the blue pickup, the red passenger car and the yellow motorcycle beside the sign — are standing within that stretch, so all three drivers have committed an offence. Nearness to or distance from the sign's post makes no difference; what matters is being inside the declared zone.

Such a sign is usually fitted where the standing of even one car breaks the road's capacity or blinds the view: near entrances, at narrow points and on busy routes. When several cars stand in such a stretch, the flow is forced into sudden lane changes, and that is exactly where rear-end and side impacts occur.

Two common traps: first, confusing the cross with the single-stroke "parking prohibited" sign, and second, supposing the motorcycle is excepted because it is small. Stopping-prohibition signs have nothing to do with the type of vehicle.

• This option sees the two vehicles nearer the sign and leaves out the blue pickup, which is standing in the same stretch. • Choosing only the blue car implies that the others are outside the sign's zone, whereas the double-headed arrow of the supplementary plate says the contrary. • The motorcycle really has committed an offence, but the stopping prohibition is not specific to it and covers every vehicle in the same stretch.

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