CONFUSED: UK motorists are easily distracted by road signs[GETTY]Significant numbers have no idea what commonly used signs mean.
Speeding, for example, is the norm for many drivers.
One in three motorists – roughly 10 million in total – does not know that a sign with a white circle and a black diagonal line signifies a 70mph limit for cars on motorways and dual carriageways.
I passed my test when I was 18 and I still struggle to tell what certain signs mean
Twenty per cent had no idea that the speed limit on urban roads with regularly spaced lamp posts and no speed signs is 30mph.
One in three drivers admits to speeding routinely in built-up areas while almost half – 43 per cent – average 81mph on motorways.
It is perhaps unsurprising that in the past 12 months, 1,316 speeding tickets were issued every day.
The survey of 2,000 drivers by More Th>n car insurance also found that the road sign for a slippery road left one in seven baffled.
Some believed it meant paint had been spilled ahead.
One in 10 was confused by the sign for road narrowing.
James Barter, 28, of Southampton, admitted: “I passed my test when I was 18 and I still struggle to tell what certain signs mean.
“There are so many and they are not very clear or obvious.”
Gary Rae, senior campaigner for Brake, the road safety charity, said: “These are worrying findings from the survey.
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