This sign informs in advance

Explanation

About a crossing of the road with a cycle path.

The triangle with a red border and the image of a bicycle is a warning sign and announces that a little further on a cycle path crosses the carriageway. The picture shows the same thing: the road is narrow and lined with trees, visibility is short because of the foliage on both sides, and on the road surface, not far ahead, the transverse markings of a cycle crossing are visible.

The safety reason for this warning is the difference in speed and the smallness of the object. A cyclist is narrow, silent and faster than the driver imagines; on a road such as the one in the picture, where vegetation comes right up to the edge of the carriageway, a cyclist becomes visible only a second before reaching the crossing line. The sign gives you notice earlier than that second so that you reduce speed, keep your foot ready over the brake and look both ways.

The key point tested in the exam: triangular warning signs never determine priority. They merely announce a hazard; who must give way is determined by the priority signs and the markings at that spot. So seeing this sign alone neither gives you priority nor takes it away.

• Ordering you to give way is the work of priority signs, not of a warning triangle; if you had to give way here, a "give way" sign would be posted. • A "bicycle square" is not defined at all among the signs; the image on this sign is a single bicycle and it announces a crossing, not a square.

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