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OCR: DRIVING TEST SUCCESS INFORMATION FACT SHEET PRACTICAL ABOUT: Road Markings Markings on the road can either give us information, warn us or give an order. As a general rule of thumb the more paint there is in the road marking, the more important is the message. There are many different types of road markings and here we only have room for the most basic ones. We would recommend that you obtain the DTLR booklet titled - Know your traffic signs - which has extensive coverage. Along the Road Across the Road A Broken white lines separate Z opposing traffic flows. A The deep solid white line always B A continuous line should not occurs at a STOP sign junction. be crossed or straddled except B This Stop line occurs at traffic in specific circumstances, but a signals or a Police control. broken line allows overtaking. c Give way junction lines, also C Where a hatched line area is used in traffic calming schemes. bordered by a continuous line This is a pedestrian stop line as you must not enter. Where the occurs at level crossings. line is broken - only if safe to do E Give way to traffic from the right A B So at a roundabout. C D Traffic lane separation lines F Give way to traffic from the right at a mini-roundabout. are placed to indicate where the traffic flow should go. . A place where pedestrians cross G the road where traffic is control- E Zig-zag markings both at the led by signals, the Police, or a road's edge and centre indicate traffic warden. AHEAD a no parking or waiting zone, as Transverse yellow bar markings found at a pedestrian crossing. H are placed across lanes that F Arrows indicate the direction approach a roundabout to slow ONLY that traffic should take. But the the traffic down. added words make the direction D E F compulsory. Ok