Motorway signs
Drivers should check their distance from the vehicle in front
What it means
A prompt to look hard at the gap between you and the car in front. You will meet it on stretches where tailgating causes shunts. Leave at least a two-second gap on a fast road and double it in the wet. It is advice rather than law, but that gap is what buys you time.
Highway Code Rule 126 — read it on GOV.UK
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Other motorway signs
- Additional traffic lanes joining from the right ahead. Traffic on the main carriageway has priority over joining traffic
- Appropriate traffic lanes for different manoeuvres at a junction ahead
- Closure of all lanes of a three lane carriageway ahead
- Closure of right hand lane of a two lane carriageway ahead
- Direction to a motorway at the junction shown, indicating route number
- Drivers should keep a distance of two chevron markings from the vehicle in front
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