The white word legend SCHOOL XING is painted in your travel lane. What does it warn you to do as you approach?
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A.
Slow down, scan both sides for children, and be ready to stop for a pedestrian or crossing guard. Correct
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B.
Stop at the legend and wait for a crossing guard to wave you through.
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C.
Reduce speed only after a child steps into the roadway ahead.
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D.
Change into a non-adjacent lane before reaching the school property.
The answer is "Slow down, scan both sides for children, and be ready to stop for a pedestrian or crossing guard."
The SCHOOL XING legend warns that a school crossing is just ahead. Slow down, scan both sides of the road for children, and be ready to stop for a pedestrian or crossing guard using the crosswalk. Drivers who wait until a child steps into the roadway are treating the marking as a reactive brake cue, when a legend printed ahead of the crossing exists to prepare you before anyone appears.
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B. Stop at the legend and wait for a crossing guard to wave you through.
The legend is a painted warning, not a stop line. You slow and prepare as you approach; you stop when a pedestrian is crossing or a crossing guard directs you to stop. This answer reads any school-related pavement marking as a mandatory halt, borrowing the rule for a stopped school bus with its red lights flashing and stop arm out.
C. Reduce speed only after a child steps into the roadway ahead.
Slowing begins where the legend is painted, because the marking exists to prepare you before a child appears in the roadway. This answer treats an advance warning as a reactive cue like a brake light, so the driver only responds after seeing motion in the roadway.
D. Change into a non-adjacent lane before reaching the school property.
The legend tells you to slow and watch in your own lane; nothing about a school crossing calls for a lane change. This answer confuses an advance school-crossing warning with a rule that requires changing lanes around certain stopped roadside vehicles.
This question tests your knowledge of Road Markings on the roads of every US state . Source: Manual on Uniform Traffic Control Devices, marking 3B.21 (SCHOOL XING Pavement Legend)..
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