MUTCD W10-13P · Warning signs
Supplemental plaque indicating no gates or lights at crossing
What it means
Supplemental plaque indicating no gates or lights at crossing.
What to do about it
It is a warning sign: the yellow diamond warns of a condition ahead so you can slow down and be ready before you reach it. (MUTCD W10-13P.)
Practice this on the real test format
Signs are the part of the DMV written test people fail on, because reading them is a skill rather than a fact to memorize. Aprobify drills all 1034 of them, and tells you why each answer is what it is.
Get the appSign designations follow the MUTCD and the California MUTCD published by Caltrans; meanings are checked against the California Driver's Handbook (DL 600, rev. 6/2025). Edited by Fernando Aguilera. Aprobify is not affiliated with the California DMV.
Signs in the same family
These sit next to it in the warning signs series — the ones most easily mixed up with it.
- W10-11a Specific distance between tracks and highway
- W10-11b Specific distance between highway and tracks behind
- W10-12L Skewed railroad crossing ahead to the left (supplements W10-1)
- W10-12R Skewed railroad crossing ahead to the right (supplements W10-1)
- W10-14aP Supplemental plaque directing to use next crossing
- W10-14P Supplemental plaque indicating next crossing information