Unusual European Road Signs

[@raquelt1813]

This is by far the best video I have seen explaining signs, esp the priority to the right signs!!! Thank you Gary!

[@Johnads1966]

Thank you Gary brilliant video

[@razzmatazz0077]

Thanks you Gary, very helpful sir

[@johnwinters4201]

The French urban junctions which you pictured are unusually helpful in that they have an explicit sign indicating priorité à droite. Those signs are more common on country roads where of course they have the same meaning. Towns need a lot more care. Sometimes you will get a sign as you enter telling you that the whole town is priorité à droite; sometimes you won't. Sometimes just the odd junction follows that rule but the big problem is that there is generally no sign to tell you, the person who has to give way, that they've thrown in a tricky junction. You really need to look at every road approaching from the right and check whether it has a stop or give way sign for the approaching driver. That's the only way to be sure that they don't have the right to pull out in front of you (unless you are driving on a road explicitly signposted with the yellow diamond). It's all terribly French.

[@GaryFrance_Tour1]

I 100% agree with what you have said. You are spot on!

[@kirilvelinov7774]

China has only four priority signs: Yield(yellow) Stop(red) Yield to oncoming(red) Priority over oncoming(blue)

[@nilwel8521]

In the Netherlands the triangle sign with the cross means "dangerous intersection"

[@GaryFrance_Tour1]

Yes, but it also means what I said in the video: traffic from the right has priority. see movetonetherlands.com/survivaltips_getting_around_traffic_signs.html

[@tr33c21]

@@GaryFrance_Tour1 i find your explanation dangerous. The default is ALWAYS give priority to the right unless stated differently using priority signs. This sign warns for a default junction. Usually done where the visibility is low and you should probably slow down to check for priority.

[@GaryFrance_Tour1]

Sorry, but that is nonsense. You cannot possibly say “ The default is ALWAYS give priority to the right …”. Absolutely not!

[@gabytrifoi]

in Romania it means intersection without signs in this case you have to apply right priority,🙂

​@@GaryFrance_Tour1on uncontrolled intersections, standard rule of the road applies - straight before turning, right before left. You approach every intersection knowing you'll yield to the right, unless it is controlled by lights or signs. That is the "default".

[@symmetry08]

Diamond with Yellow sign exists in many countries, or adopted by. Eastern Europeans and former USSR republics, including Russia has the same meaning. I am sure most African countries as well.

[@weebolddavy]

Thanks for that Gary, best exclamation of these signs I've heard. Not been to France yet but I'm sure I'll be expecting someone to rear-end me😒😒

[@GaryFrance_Tour1]

Cheers, I am pleased it helped.

[@davidmatthews3093]

Why? Do you drive erratically?

[@weebolddavy]

@@davidmatthews3093 No, I'm a retired lorry driver and been accident free for 46 years and always well aware what's going on around me, but not everyone is.

[@achugody114]

Very good

[@ori2022]

Wow this is perfect

[@GaryFrance_Tour1]

Thank you. I am glad it is helpful to you.

[@trex2621]

3:05 Is not true. You don't "obviously need to give way to vehicles on the roundabout. While I haven't seen roundabouts where incoming traffic has right of the way for some years, they are perfectly legal and only "Yield" sign or absence of it will tell, what kind of roundabout it is.

[@GaryFrance_Tour1]

In the context of the video, where the yellow sign with the diagonal line through is just before a roundabout it means 100% you must give way to traffic on the roundabout, no exceptions whatsoever.

[@trex2621]

@@GaryFrance_Tour1 In context of the video ... kind of. But it still requires triangle at roundabout (together with roundabout sign) because it only cancels "right of the way", but doesn't require giving a way to traffic coming from left (i.e. cars already on roundabout).

[@leDespicable]

At least here in Germany, there are no such roundabouts. Cars always have to yield to those already in the roundabout, period. You‘re probably referring to what we‘d call a circular intersection. They look like roundabouts, but have no roundabout or yield signs posted, therefore they follow the rules of a regular intersection. They are, as the name suggests however, not considered a roundabout, but a regular intersection.

[@trex2621]

@leDespicable how do you know not to turn left on circular intersection? In the past roundabouts, where you had to yeld to traffic from right, were common in Russia. They also existed in Finland. When I was visiting a friend, there were 2 of different kinds 20-50 meters of each other. As city limit passed between them, one was marked according city, another according rural rules.

[@leDespicable]

@@trex2621 At such intersections, there are arrow signs mounted either at the entrances or on the center island that prohibit you from turning left into a circular intersection

[@modernrecipes]

cheers gary

"Dangerous intersection" sign does NOT imply priority. It indicates that the intersection has extra hazards to it (poor visibility, vehicles approaching downwards from a steep hill, that kinda jazz). There are only two warning signs that indicate priority on the road, and those are "yield" and "priority at the next intersection" signs. All other triangular warning signs indicate hazards to the driver. Yielding to the vehicles to the right is done on all uncontrolled intersections (where there's no traffic lights or yield/stop signature), except for crossings with unpaved roads, because the driver emerging unto paved road must yield to those on it. "Priority road" and "end of priority road" (also "priority on the intersection" warning) signs are situated differently depending on whether you are in built-up area or not. In built-up area, the sign is immediately before every intersection. Outside town, the sign is placed immediately after one. Therefore, seeing the sign outside of town does not mean there is anything immediately after it. The sign being placed immediately after town name means that immediately after that sign there is uncontrolled intersection, meaning you have to yield to those approachong from the right. It does NOT mean that you don't have priority throughout the town - the normal "right before left, straight before turning" rule of the road applies. Therefore, for those blokes on that very same street, who wish to enter that road from the left, they will yield to you. In all towns around Europe the speed limit is 50km/h. The red border is French flair on the sign, which by Vienna convention is usually just black text on white background. Germans use yellow background and more squared design and the Dutch use white letters on blue background. There is a Wikipedia page with a comparison chart on this sign alone.

[@dlevi67]

White letters on a blue background indicate minimum speeds, not maximum. Dutch limits are posted with black numerals on white background inside a red circle, just like in most other European countries. I've never seen yellow background German signs (they've always been white) but the yellow background is used in some Scandinavian countries.

@@dlevi67 The comment is about built-up area speed limit and sign that denotes built-up area as such. In all Vienna convention countries, speed limit is black numbers on white background and red circle around, minimum required speed is white numbers on blue background (circular sign denoting order), and recommended speed also with white numbers on blue background, but with a rectangular sign.

[@dlevi67]

@ You said: "In all towns around Europe the speed limit is 50km/h. The red border is French flair on the sign, which by Vienna convention is usually just black text on white background. Germans use yellow background and more squared design and the Dutch use white letters on blue background." The Germans don't use "more squared design" (whatever that means; a circle is a circle) and the Dutch don't use white letters on blue backgrounds to denote maximum speed limits.

[@davidmatthews3093]

There is no ‘dangerous intersection’ sign although panels might tell you that you are approaching a dangerous junction. They are not conventional road signs they are simply stating a fact.

[@kirilvelinov7774]

The yellow sign means you're driving on a highway

[@GaryFrance_Tour1]

No, it absolutely does not. It means you have right of way on the road you are on, irrespective of the type of road. You see them often on small roads as you leave villages.