Exam 53اِگزیم

Drivers of special vehicles or those acting as special transport must use the V-2 light signal both during the day and at night, whenever they drive on public roads, and must drive no faster than 40 kilometers per hour. If the V-2 light signal malfunctions, they must use the low-beam headlights along with the emergency lights.

If we approach a cyclist while driving our vehicle on a public road, we should follow a series of tips to avoid a possible collision:

1. First of all we will avoid accelerating or passing too close to cyclists, always maintaining the minimum safety distance established.

2. We should also avoid making acoustic signals with the horn near them to avoid scaring them and unbalancing them, and we should moderate our speed.

The driver of a vehicle must always anticipate his intentions before making a manoeuvre, giving a clear warning sufficiently in advance and using light signals as a general rule or possibly with the arm.

In an emergency situation that forces you to immobilize your vehicle on the shoulder of the road, such as in the case of a breakdown, you must signal your immobilization by placing two hazard warning triangles on all types of roads, at least 50 meters from the vehicle and such that they are visible from at least 100 meters away. You should also turn on your emergency lights and, if necessary, the vehicle’s position lights.

The purpose of road signs is to warn and inform road users, with the necessary advance notice, of certain road or traffic circumstances, or to order or regulate their behaviour. Traffic signs are a communication system in which the spoken language is replaced by the language of shapes, colors, silhouettes and symbols or signs.

As the driver of a vehicle increases their speed, they will also reduce the usable scope of their visual field and will accelerate the onset of fatigue. This is the so-called tunnel vision effect, which hinders you from assessing danger on the sides of the road, which is particularly dangerous at intersections.

The so-called tunnel effect, caused by the high speed at which we drive our vehicle, has among other consequences, that the driver can only perceive with total clarity the center of the road, leaving the sides more distorted, having fixed the view for a long period of time in the same central point.

Traffic regulations define a vehicle as any device or artifact that is fit for travel on public roads. This includes non-motor vehicles such as bicycles and wheelchairs, and motor vehicles such as motorcycles and passenger cars.

If the car traveling behind us is not keeping the safety distance, you should increase the distance with the vehicle at the front of us whenever possible, signalling all the manoeuvres always braking softly and with anticipation.

If your vehicle has a GPS navigation system installed, and at some point it tells you to perform some manoeuvre prohibited by traffic regulations or to enter some place you are not permitted, the driver’s best judgment must prevail at all times over the instructions of the GPS.

When counting the available seats in a vehicle we will take into account that each child between 2 and 12 years old will occupy a seat that will be counted as a seat. Therefore, the vehicle with 9 seats including the driver’s seat will only have 8 available to transport the children since the driver’s seat will be occupied, and therefore it will not be able to carry 9 children because this would exceed the number of seats allowed for this particular vehicle.

Although the traffic law requires that vehicles traveling in a VAO lane carry a minimum of two occupants, there is an exception in which only one passenger is allowed to circulate:

In the case of vehicles destined for handicapped persons displaying the V-15 sign (which refers to physically handicapped drivers and you can see in the image), and for 2-wheel motorcycles, which may also circulate in the BUS-VAO even if they do not carry a passenger.

All vehicles with a maximum authorized mass less than 3,500 kg which are disrupting normal traffic flow by travelling at an abnormally reduced speed for this type of road due to an emergency or breakdown may travel on the hard shoulder of the motorway in the image. When this situation arises, the driver must leave the dual carriageway or motorway at the next exit so as not to interfere with the rest of the vehicles on the road.

The liquid that a battery contains is a mixture of distilled water and sulfuric acid. To replenish this liquid, we will only add distilled water because the sulfuric acid does not evaporate.

If a driver feels tired during a trip, the best thing he can do is stop, rest and sleep as long as necessary. It’s also necessary to eat mild foods easy to digest and drink a lot of water to stay properly hydrated.

In addition to adverse weather conditions such as very heavy rain, heavy fog, heavy snow or dense clouds of smoke or dust, you may optionally use the front fog lights along with the position lights on narrow sections of road less than 6.5 meters wide in which there is a series of dangerous curves with the respective warning signs.
They can’t be used in any circumstance where visibility is reduced.

The blue vertical obligation sign R-401A for obligatory direction, when placed on a traffic island or refuge, indicates that all vehicles driving on that section of road are required to go to the side of the island indicated by the arrow, in this case, the right side.

Traffic regulations state that drivers who are performing a reversing or parking manoeuvre are exempt from wearing a seat belt because the seat belt may become an obstacle in correctly performing these manoeuvres. In the case of interurban roads, wearing the seat belt is always obligatory for all occupants of any type of vehicle.

Alcohol intake is very detrimental to the safe driving of a vehicle and is also negatively affected by other personal factors such as stress or fatigue. That is why we will avoid consuming any type of alcoholic beverage before getting behind the wheel of a vehicle.

Automobiles with a trailer on conventional highways can drive at 80 km/h as long as there is a paved shoulder at least 1.50 meters wide or more than one lane in that direction. On all other conventional highways, they can travel at a maximum speed of 70 km/h.

Vehicles traveling on a paved road will have the right of way over those entering from an unpaved road, as in this case the vehicle is doing.

Therefore, we must continue without stopping, since the right of way is ours.

The most common profile of the child pedestrian hit by a vehicle is a child between 5 and 9 years of age, who suffers the accident at the end of the school day, in the afternoon.

These accidents usually occur on roadways more than three meters wide, when the child crosses outside an intersection.

Given the child’s short stature, the impact mostly affects vital parts of the body: the head and thorax.

Drivers of any type of vehicle cannot exceed a blood alcohol level of 0.3 grams per litre, or, during the first two years after obtaining their driving license, 0.15 milligrams per litre of air.

The Road Traffic Regulations prohibit the driver of a vehicle from throwing onto or near the road objects such as lit cigarettes that could cause fires or traffic accidents, hinder free movement and endanger road safety. This action will be sanctioned with the loss of up to 4 points of our driving licence so we must avoid this type of behaviour.

On motorways with 3 lanes for each direction of travel, you should drive at a maximum speed of 120 km/hr and a minimum of 60 km/hr. When, in addition, you see the vertical sign S-50C in the image, this indicates that the lanes over which the minimum speed sign is placed may only be used by vehicles driving at a speed that is greater than or equal to the indicated speed. Therefore, if you are driving at 60 km/hr, you cannot use the left or middle lanes, but must use the right lane.

The speed limit road marking shown in the image establishes that no vehicle shall exceed the maximum speed in kilometers per hour indicated on the sign (50 km/hour in this lane).

In addition, if this figure is located in a lane delimited by a longitudinal line, as in this case, this maximum speed will only be applicable to vehicles traveling in that particular lane.

The main function of the airbag as a passive safety element is to complement the seat belt by preventing occupants from impacting with parts of the vehicle and stopping their bodies when the seat belt can no longer retain them. Under no circumstances should the airbag be used alone, only as a complement to the seat belt.

Traffic officers may perform a second Breathalyzer test on a driver if the first test was negative, in those cases in which the driver shows clear symptoms of being intoxicated and his behavior is not consistent with that of a person who has not been drinking alcohol.
If the Breathalyzer test is still negative, the officers may collect the data of the driver with symptoms of drunkenness and notify the relevant authorities.

Article 94 of the Traffic Regulations states that it is totally forbidden to stop: in curves and changes of gradient with reduced visibility, in their vicinity and in tunnels, underpasses and sections of roads affected by the “Tunnel” sign”.
Therefore, we cannot stop or park in this type of curves since, due to the lack of visibility, we could be an obstacle for other drivers.

The vertical hazard warning sign P-17B shown in the image indicates that you are approaching a section of road where the roadway will become more narrow on the left-hand side, and where you should use caution and change lanes to the one that will remain open when traffic permits.