P-17a
What does the P-17a sign mean?
Road narrows from the right
Meaning
The carriageway narrows from the right ahead. It may also be used where the right shoulder gets narrower. It is not used where lanes are dropped on the right but the remaining lanes and shoulders keep their width.
Sign details
- Official code
- P-17a
- Group
- Danger warning signs
- Catalogue section
- 3.1
- How to recognise it
- An equilateral triangle pointing up, with a red border and a white ground carrying a black symbol.
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)
P-17 variants
These share the same base code and are easy to mix up — the difference is in the detail of the symbol.
P-17Road narrowsThe carriageway narrows ahead. It may also be used where the hard shoulders get narrower. It is not used where the number of lanes drops but the remaining lanes and shoulders keep their width.
P-17bRoad narrows from the leftThe carriageway narrows from the left ahead. It may also be used where the left shoulder gets narrower on a one-way carriageway. It is not used where lanes are dropped on the left but the remaining lanes and shoulders keep their width.
Other signs in this group
P-1Junction with priorityA junction is coming up with a road whose users must give way to you.
P-1aJunction with priority over a road on the rightA junction is coming up with a road on the right whose users must give way to you.
P-1bJunction with priority over a road on the leftA junction is coming up with a road on the left whose users must give way to you.
P-1cPriority over a slip road joining from the rightA road joins from the right ahead, and its users must give way to you.
P-1dPriority over a slip road joining from the leftA road joins from the left ahead, and its users must give way to you.
P-1eStretch with direct accessesA stretch ahead has several direct accesses onto the road; traffic using them must give way to you.
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