Road Signs, Signals and Markings
This domain checks that you can read Mauritius road signs, traffic signals and carriageway markings instantly and act on them correctly, including signs you meet only occasionally on rural and coastal roads.
Sign families
- Red circles = prohibitions (no entry, no overtaking, speed limit, no parking).
- Red triangles = warnings (bend, junction, pedestrian crossing, cattle, slippery road).
- Blue circles = mandatory instructions (keep left, turn left ahead, minimum speed).
- Rectangles = information and directions; octagon = STOP; inverted triangle = GIVE WAY.
Signals and markings
- Traffic lights run red → red-and-amber → green → amber → red. Amber means stop unless it is unsafe to do so.
- A police officer's raised arm or back-to-front signal overrides the lights and signs.
- Continuous white line: no crossing, no overtaking. Broken line: overtake only when clear.
- Yellow box junction: do not enter unless your exit is clear (you may wait in it to turn right).
- Zig-zags at pedestrian crossings: no parking and no overtaking the leading vehicle.
Worked example
You approach a junction on amber. The road beyond is solid with queued traffic. Do you proceed?
Reasoning: amber requires you to stop unless stopping would be dangerous. Even on green you must not enter a junction you cannot clear, because that blocks the crossing traffic and the pedestrian phase. The correct action is to stop at the line and wait for the next cycle when there is space beyond.
Traps that cost marks
- Treating amber as "speed up".
- Entering a yellow box junction and stopping in it.
- Reading a blue circle as a warning rather than a command.
- Stopping on the zig-zags to set down a passenger.