S-840
What does the S-840 sign mean?
Advance notice of a compulsory stop
Meaning
Fitted under the give-way sign, gives the distance to the compulsory stop sign at the next junction.
Sign details
- Official code
- S-840
- Group
- Complementary panels
- Catalogue section
- 3.17
- How to recognise it
- A rectangular plate with a white ground and a black border, fitted below another sign.
Source: Reglamento General de Circulación — Anexo I, apartado 5: Catálogo oficial de señales de la circulación y marcas viales (Catálogo de señales verticales, tomo I) · Anexo I, apartado 5 (Catálogo de señales verticales de circulación, tomo I)
Other signs in this group
S-800Distance to where the hazard or rule beginsGives the distance from the sign to the point where the hazard begins or its rule starts to apply. Fitted under the sign warning of a narrowing carriageway, it may instead give the free width of that narrowing.
S-810Length of the hazardous stretch or the stretch the rule coversGives the length over which the hazard exists or the rule applies.
S-820Extent of the prohibition, on one sideFitted under a prohibition sign, gives the distance over which that prohibition applies in the direction of the arrow.
S-821Extent of the prohibition, on one sideFitted under a prohibition sign, gives the distance over which that prohibition applies in the direction of the arrow.
S-830Extent of the prohibition, on both sidesFitted under a prohibition sign, gives the distances over which that prohibition applies in each direction the arrows show.
S-850Priority routeA supplementary panel to sign R-3, showing the priority route.
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