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50 km/hWHEN CHILDRENON HIGHWAY

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School zone — 50 km/h when children present

What it means

On this school zone sign the 50 km/h limit is in effect from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. on school days when children are on the roadway or the shoulder.

Yellow diamonds (and five-sided yellow-green school signs) warn of hazards ahead.

Summarised from ICBC’s Learn to Drive Smart. Read the original: Signs signals and road markings ↗

How to recognise it

The fluorescent yellow-green school zone sign with a white tab showing 50 km/h and the words "when children on highway".

Where you will see it

Faster roads and highways that pass a school, where a lower limit is needed only when children are near the road.

What to do when you see it

  1. 1.On school days from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m., slow to 50 km/h if children are on the roadway or the shoulder.
  2. 2.Scan the shoulders well ahead so you see children in time to slow down.

On the knowledge test

Every condition must hold at once: a school day, between 8 a.m. and 5 p.m., and children on the roadway or shoulder. Answers that drop any of them are wrong.

Practice questions for this sign

50 km/hWHEN CHILDRENON HIGHWAY

When is the 50 km/h limit on this school zone sign in effect?