An octagonal sign is always a:
- Speed limit sign.
- Stop sign. ✓
- Hospital sign.
- Railroad warning sign.
Answer: B. Stop sign.
An octagonal sign is always a stop sign.
Why this is the answer
The handbook's sign-shape table says octagons are used exclusively for stop signs. It also describes the stop sign as requiring a complete stop, yielding to pedestrians or other vehicles, and then proceeding carefully. Because the shape itself identifies the sign, an octagonal sign should be read as a stop sign rather than as speed, hospital, or railroad information.
Why the other answers are wrong
- A. Speed limit sign. — A speed limit sign is not what the octagon marks; the handbook reserves that shape exclusively for stop signs.
- C. Hospital sign. — Hospital signs are not identified by an octagonal shape; the handbook's shape table gives the octagon only to stop signs.
- D. Railroad warning sign. — A railroad warning sign is not the octagon's meaning; the handbook says the octagonal shape belongs exclusively to stop signs.
Remember it
Link the eight-sided shape in your mind to the one action it always demands: stop.
Official handbook: Texas Driver Handbook (DL-7), Chapter 5: Signals, Signs, and Markers , p. 26