Traffoc Officers

Traffic Officers

Directions given by traffic officers take precedence over signs, signals or pavement markings. If a traffic officer signals you to stop at a green light, for example, you must stop. If an officer signals you to drive through a red light or stop sign, you must do it.

Among the persons authorized to direct traffic are police officers, fire police, highway work area flag persons, and school crossing persons.  

Questions

Before you move on to Chapter 5, make sure you can identify the signs in this chapter and know what they mean. Also, make sure you can answer these questions:

• A regulation sign is normally what shape?
• What is the normal color and shape of a warning sign?
• What color and shape is a destination sign?
• What must you do at a STOP sign?
• What must you do when facing each of the following: a flashing red light, flashing yellow light, steady yellow light, a red light with a green arrow?
• What does it indicate if an edge line angles in toward the center of the road?
• What do each of these lines indicate: one broken, one solid, double solid, solid and broken together?
• If an intersection has crosswalk lines but no STOP line, where must you stop for a red light at that intersection?
• What type of pavement marking is used to show you which lane you must use for a turn?
• Which of the following must you obey over the other three: steady red light, flashing red light, STOP sign, police officer?