Article 143. Arm and other signals.
1. Traffic officers regulating traffic will ensure that they are easily recognizable at a distance at all times, that their signals are visible. Their orders must be immediately obeyed by road users. The following persons must wear reflective clothing whilst working; Traffic Officers or Military Police regulating traffic, works personnel, those accompanying special transport regime vehicles, school patrols, civil protection personnel, sporting activities personnel, and others specified in section 4 of this Article. The relective clothing must be visible to approaching drivers at a minimum distance of 150 m.
2. As a general rule, traffic officers will use the following signals:
a) Arm raised vertically: obliges all drivers approaching the officer to stop, except drivers who cannot do so in conditions of sufficient safety. If at an intersection, it does not oblige drivers to stop who have already entered it. Stopping must occur before the nearest stop line or, in its absense, immediately before the officer. At an intersection, stopping must occur before entering it. After this signal, the officer may indicate the place where stopping must occur.
b) Arm or arms extended horizontally: obliges all road users approaching the officer from directions that cross the path indicated by the arm or extended arms from whatever direction to stop. This signal remains in force even if the officer lowers his arm or arms, until he changes position or gives another signal.
c) Waving a yellow or red light: obliges road users towards which the agent directs the light to stop.
d) Arm extended moving it alternatively up and down: this signal obliges drivers approaching the officer perpendicular to the side corresponding to the signalling arm to reduce their speed.
e) Other signals: when circumstances demand, officers may use any other signal different from the above in a clear manner. Officers may order vehicles to stop with short whistle blasts, and a ‘go’ signal with a long blast.
3. Officers may give orders or indications to road users while by using signal V-1 in the RGV, through loud hailer or by any other means that can be clearly understood, including the following:
a) Red flag: indicates that the road beyond the vehicle with the flag is temporarily closed to all traffic, except those accompanied or escorted by traffic officers.
b) Green Flag: indicates that the road beyond the vehicle with the flag is reopened to traffic.
c) Yellow Flag: indicates to other drivers and road users the presence of danger. This flag may also be used by personnel responsible for the order, control or safety during cycling events or any other activity, sporting or not, on roads subject to the LST.
d) Arm extended and inclined downwards: obliges the user indicated to stop on the right hand side.
e) Flashing yellow or red lights: obliges the driver preceding the officer to stop the vehicle on the right hand side, in front of the police vehicle, in a place where it does not create further risk or annoyance to other users, and to follow the instructions of the officer by means of loud speaker.
4. In the absence of traffic officers or to help them, and in the circumstances and conditions established in this regulation, Military Police, works personnel or those accompanying special transport vehicles may regulate traffic by means of signals R-2 and R-400, and by the same means, school patrols can require road users to stop. When the competent authority authorizes sporting or other activities that require traffic controls on urban or interurban roads, the authority responsible for the traffic may authorize civil protection personnel or the responsible organization to bar access of vehicles or pedestrians to the affected area or itinerary, in the conditions set out in Annex II.
When Security or Armed Forces of the State, in the scope of their duty, establish controls for public safety on the highway, they may regulate traffic in the absence of traffic officers.
The form and meaning of signals and orders of traffic officers will conform to that in the official Catalogue of Traffic signals. These signals also appear in Annex I.
1. Traffic officers regulating traffic will ensure that they are easily recognizable at a distance at all times, that their signals are visible. Their orders must be immediately obeyed by road users. The following persons must wear reflective clothing whilst working; Traffic Officers or Military Police regulating traffic, works personnel, those accompanying special transport regime vehicles, school patrols, civil protection personnel, sporting activities personnel, and others specified in section 4 of this Article. The relective clothing must be visible to approaching drivers at a minimum distance of 150 m.
2. As a general rule, traffic officers will use the following signals:
a) Arm raised vertically: obliges all drivers approaching the officer to stop, except drivers who cannot do so in conditions of sufficient safety. If at an intersection, it does not oblige drivers to stop who have already entered it. Stopping must occur before the nearest stop line or, in its absense, immediately before the officer. At an intersection, stopping must occur before entering it. After this signal, the officer may indicate the place where stopping must occur.
b) Arm or arms extended horizontally: obliges all road users approaching the officer from directions that cross the path indicated by the arm or extended arms from whatever direction to stop. This signal remains in force even if the officer lowers his arm or arms, until he changes position or gives another signal.
c) Waving a yellow or red light: obliges road users towards which the agent directs the light to stop.
d) Arm extended moving it alternatively up and down: this signal obliges drivers approaching the officer perpendicular to the side corresponding to the signalling arm to reduce their speed.
e) Other signals: when circumstances demand, officers may use any other signal different from the above in a clear manner. Officers may order vehicles to stop with short whistle blasts, and a ‘go’ signal with a long blast.
3. Officers may give orders or indications to road users while by using signal V-1 in the RGV, through loud hailer or by any other means that can be clearly understood, including the following:
a) Red flag: indicates that the road beyond the vehicle with the flag is temporarily closed to all traffic, except those accompanied or escorted by traffic officers.
b) Green Flag: indicates that the road beyond the vehicle with the flag is reopened to traffic.
c) Yellow Flag: indicates to other drivers and road users the presence of danger. This flag may also be used by personnel responsible for the order, control or safety during cycling events or any other activity, sporting or not, on roads subject to the LST.
d) Arm extended and inclined downwards: obliges the user indicated to stop on the right hand side.
e) Flashing yellow or red lights: obliges the driver preceding the officer to stop the vehicle on the right hand side, in front of the police vehicle, in a place where it does not create further risk or annoyance to other users, and to follow the instructions of the officer by means of loud speaker.
4. In the absence of traffic officers or to help them, and in the circumstances and conditions established in this regulation, Military Police, works personnel or those accompanying special transport vehicles may regulate traffic by means of signals R-2 and R-400, and by the same means, school patrols can require road users to stop. When the competent authority authorizes sporting or other activities that require traffic controls on urban or interurban roads, the authority responsible for the traffic may authorize civil protection personnel or the responsible organization to bar access of vehicles or pedestrians to the affected area or itinerary, in the conditions set out in Annex II.
When Security or Armed Forces of the State, in the scope of their duty, establish controls for public safety on the highway, they may regulate traffic in the absence of traffic officers.
The form and meaning of signals and orders of traffic officers will conform to that in the official Catalogue of Traffic signals. These signals also appear in Annex I.
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