Warning signs — New Mexico Permit Test

This warning sign means a cross road is ahead.

Cars may pull out from the side road, so slow down and watch both ways as you near it.

Cross Road

This warning sign means traffic will be merging into your lane ahead.

Another lane of cars is about to join yours, so be ready to adjust your speed and make room.

Merging Traffic

This warning sign means a traffic signal is ahead.

The light may be hidden by a hill or curve, so you need warning to be ready to stop.

Signal Ahead

This warning sign means two-way traffic is ahead.

After a one-way stretch, cars will come at you head-on, so keep to your own side.

Two-Way Traffic

This warning sign means the right lane ends ahead.

Drivers in the ending lane must move over, so make room or merge in good time.

Right Lane Ends

This sign marks a school zone.

Children may dash into the road without looking, so slow down and watch for them.

School Zone

This warning sign means a pedestrian crossing is ahead.

People on foot may be in the road ahead, and they lose badly in any crash with a car.

Pedestrian Crossing

This warning sign means a divided highway begins ahead.

Soon a median will split the two directions, so stay to the right of it.

Divided Highway

This warning sign means the divided highway ends ahead.

Oncoming cars will soon share the road with no median between you, so keep right.

Divided Highway Ends

This warning sign means the road is slippery when wet.

Water makes tires lose grip, so slow down and brake gently when it rains here.

Slippery When Wet

This warning sign means a hill is ahead.

Going down a hill your car gains speed, and big trucks need extra room to slow or stop.

Hill

This round warning sign is placed along the road before you get to a railroad crossing.

It gives you time to slow down and look and listen for a train before you reach the tracks.

with an “X” symbol and black “RR” letters is placed along the road before you get to a railroad crossing.

This sign at a railroad crossing means the same as a yield sign: you must yield to crossing trains.

A train cannot stop or swerve for you, so you are the one who must wait.

This sign has the same meaning as a “Yield” sign.

What does this sign warn you about?

A road crosses yours ahead. Cars may pull out from the side road, so slow down and watch both ways as you near it. New Mexico Driver Manual, p.5: “Cross Road”