Road sign R-102: No entry for motor vehicles

What it means

«Prohibición de acceso a vehículos de motor.» RD 465/2025, Annex I of the RGC (BOE-A-2025-12199), Spanish original.

The sign bans access to motor vehicles. The legal definition matters: under Annex I of the consolidated traffic law, a motor vehicle does not include mopeds (TRLSV Annex I, def. 12).

Where you meet it

You see it at the entrance to a road closed to motor vehicles. It is a no-entry sign, in the same class as R-101: it closes the way to a category of users.

What you must do

Do not enter with a motor vehicle. A bicycle is not a motor vehicle, so the sign does not affect it; a moped does not fit that legal definition either, and it has its own sign, R-105 (RGC art. 145.2.b).

Details that count

Like every no-entry sign, the law limits its effect to whoever meets it head-on, in the direction of their own travel, and from the place where it stands, not before (RGC arts. 145.2.b and 145.4). If a panel with the word EXCEPT sits below, the sign applies to everyone but what the panel names (RGC Annex I, section 5, §2.3 and panel S-880). The official name says «motor vehicles», and the legal definition in Annex I of the consolidated traffic law is what decides who counts as one (TRLSV Annex I, def. 12).

What it is confused with

It is confused with R-101 and R-105. R-101 bans access to every kind of vehicle, bicycles included; R-102 only to motor vehicles; R-105 to mopeds and to vehicles for persons with reduced mobility. Three no-entry signs, three different categories.

Related signs

• R-101: No entry
• R-105: No entry for mopeds
• R-107: No entry for goods vehicles over the weight shown

Studied in topic 10: Vertical road signs.

Source: RGC arts. 145.2.b, 145.4; RGC Annex I, section 5 (§2.3, panel S-880); TRLSV Annex I, def. 12; RGC Annex I, sign R-102 (RD 465/2025).