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Overhead route marker

Guidance

Overhead route marker

GE12.6

Illustrative image — No image for this code in the signs manual (its page has an empty placeholder frame with no bitmap) or in Commons. Shown instead is a product photo from a commercial sign manufacturer's catalogue (buffalotrafficsigns.co.za) -- real signage, but not an official or open-licence source, and not independently verified.

Where
Above the lanes most appropriate to the movement which is indicated.
Purpose
To inform in advance that a particular numbered route changes direction at the intersection ahead or that the cross-street at the intersection ahead is a numbered class-B route.
Action
Make sure which route you want to follow, slow down for the intersection and take the correct route.

Manual on Road Traffic Signs, page 41.