R-5
What does the R-5 sign mean?
Give way to oncoming traffic
Meaning
Do not enter the narrow section unless you can get through without forcing oncoming vehicles to stop.
Sign details
- Official code
- R-5
- Group
- Priority signs
- Catalogue section
- 3.2
- How to recognise it
- The shape varies with the sign: an inverted triangle, a red octagon or a diamond, according to the rule it imposes.
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
R-1Give wayGive way at the next junction to vehicles already on the road you are joining, or in the lane you want to move into. You only have to stop if it is necessary to let them pass.
R-2StopStop completely at the stop line, or immediately before the junction if there is no line, then give way to traffic on the road you are joining. If you still cannot see well enough from where you stopped, stop again where you can see, without endangering anyone.
R-3Priority roadTells you that your road has priority at junctions over traffic on, or coming from, the crossing road.
R-4End of priorityYour road is about to lose the priority it had over the crossing road.
R-6Priority over oncoming trafficAt the narrow section ahead you have priority over vehicles coming the other way.
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