Driving Regulations and Road Safety Guidelines

Page 1 1. Under which conditions you will be allowed to drive a motor vehicle on a public road once you have passed your learners? CHOOSE A CORRECT STATEMENT (e) The person should be seated next to you or directly behind you if he/she cannot sit next to you. (b) The person should be seated at the seat of the left hand drive. You must drive under the supervision of a person in possession of a valid driver's licence for the same category vehicle that you intend to drive. 2. Look at sketch 4 in the skeich booklet vehicle B. which is the correct indication? You must stop behind vehicle A, drive nearer when vehicle A has driven off, stop behind line and drive off when it is safe to do so. (b) You can drive on the stop line following vehicle B if there are no oncoming vehicles. (c) You must drive past vehicle A if there are no other vehicles. 3. What is the speed limit, unless otherwise indicated by a regulatory sign for mini buses conveying passengers on a freeway? (a) 80 km/h (b) 120 km/h (c) 100 km/h 4. Road marking B in sketch 6 tells you that: You may stop next to this line during the time period indicated on the sign display on the road. (b) The lane is for dangerous good vehicles only. (c) Only ambulances may stop here. 5. How far may you reverse your vehicle? (a) 500 metres (b) 200 meires (c)) As far as it is safe to do so. 6. Which of the following signs prohibits abnormal vehicles on the road? (a) (B) Page 3 13. Sign shows that: (a) You may not enter beyond the sign (b) You are approaching "two or more track" railway level crossing (c) You are approaching a double gate ahead 14. Will the examiner fail you if you adjust your mirror while driving? (a) Yes, it could cause an accident (b) No (c) No, because you are not endangering other road users 15. Which of the following is correct as far as the uses of cell phones is concerned? (a) You may hold/ operate a cell phone in your hand while driving if you are not endangering (b) You are not allowed to hold or operate a hand held cell phone while driving (c) You may use a cell phone in your hand while driving if you are in heavy traffic going very slow and you are late for work and you want to notify the office 16. Sign warns that: (a) There are loose stones falling from above (b) There are loose on the road ahead (c) There are road workers ahead AA 17. What is the distance beyond a non overtaking sign, you are allowed to overtake a vehicle travelling in the same direction? ((a) 500 metres (b) 300 metres (c) 800 metres 18. Which of the following signs indicate a sharp turn to the left? (a) (B) (C) Page 5 24. Which of the following statements are true? (a) You may stop and pick up hikers on the freeway (b) You may stop in a tunnel ((c)) You may not park on a traffic island 25. Beyond which sign you will find a police block? (a) (C) 26. What must you do if you have missed the exit on a freeway? (a) Reverse to the turn off (b) Make a U-turn and go back ((c)) Carry on until you can safely exit the freeway by means of another exit 27. Prohibiting signal color codes are: (a) A yellow and white disk (b) A red, white and black rectangle (c)) A black symbol on a white disk with a red border 28. You are driving a light motor vehicle. Who is exempt from using a seatbelt? (a) Elderly people (b)) Someone with a medical letter or someone who is reversing (c) Children under the age of 14 years 29. What does road marking RM3 in sketch 9 Indicate? (a) That you may not cross the marking to proceed to another lane (b) That there are mandatory direction arrows ahead (c) That there is an intersection ahead Page 9 48. The distance it lakes a heavy vehicle to stop is: (a) Short if it is heavy loaded (b) Shorter on a wet road that on a dry road (c)) Longer if the vehicle is travelling at a high speed CONTROLS 49. See sketch 3, which numbers must you use if you want to check if there are vehicle approaching from behind or from the sides? (a)) 1 and 3 (b) 2 and 6 (c) 4 and 5 50. See sketch 3. to make your vehicle move faster, you use number: (a) 9 (b) 6 ((c)) 10 51. See sketch 3. to change gears, you must use numbers: (a) 6 and 7 ((b) 6 and 8 (c) 7 and 9 52. To stop your vehicle you must use control number: ((a))9 (b) 8 (c) 7 53. Which of the following can be regarded as abandoned vehicles? SELECT THE CORRECT COMBINATION A) (a) A vehicle whose owner cannot be identified (b) A vehicle that is parked illegally (c) A vehicle that is likely to cause an obstruction B (a) A vehicle whose owner cannot be icientifled (b) A vehicle that is parked in no stopping area (c) A vehicle that has been parked for three days in the same place on an urban road Page 11 61. Sion-prohibits you from: (a) Picking up hitch hikers for the next 2km (b) Overtaking for the next 100 metres (c) Stopping to pick up hitch hikers for 500m beyond the signs 62. You are approaching a pedestrian crossing. How must one react? (a) Give way to pedestrians who are crossing (b) You do not have to give way to pedestrians who are waiting to cross (0) Slow down and hoot 63. Sign commands that: (a) You may overtake on the left in this area (b) You must drive in the direction of the sign indicated by the arrow (c) You may drive to the right of this sign 64. The dipped beams of a motor vehicle should: SELECT THE CORRECT COMBINATION (A) (a) Be used in urban areas (b) Be used in dense traffic (c) strike the road surface more than 45m ahead of the vehicle B (a) Be used in rural area (b) Be used in dense traffic (c) Only be used when there is no approaching traffic C (a) Be used between sunrise and sunset (b) Be used on misty days (c) Strike the road surface not more than 150m ahead of the vehicle 65. Sign--tells you: (a) To yield for pedestrians (b) To yield for mini cycles (c) To yield at some intersections and give way to traffic on the road that you are approaching Page 13 73. What is the stopping distance behind another vehicle? (a) 4 metres or one vehicle length (b) 2 metres (c) 1.4 metres 74. The chevron with the arrow heads pointing outwards shows: (a) That there is a boom barricade (b) That the road is closed at this point (c)) The position of the adjoin road at a T-junction 75. There are certain conditions to prevent vou from obtaining a licence. They are; (1) You already have a licence of the same class of vehicle (ii) You have been previously disqualified by a court of law and this disqualification is still in force (ii) Your licence has been suspended temporarily and the suspension has not yet expired SELECT THE CORRECT COMBINATION (a) None of the above (b) Only (i) and (ii) (c) All of the above 76. Sign---warns that: (a) There is a river ahead (b) There is s drift ahead which may contain water or debris (c) There is a weigh bridge ahead 77. Which of the following actions are compulsory? (a)) Set the hand brake before leaving (b) Switch your head lamps on at 15h30 in the winter (c) Give right of way to elderly drivers