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QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS

 

N.B. This is not an exhaustive list of questions that could be asked. It is only a sample of the type of question that can be asked and answer that may be given. The book ' Rules of the Road ' should be read, studied and understood fully for the driving test and thereafter.

1. When can you overtake on the left?

2. At a junction with roads of equal importance to whom should you give way?

3. At a STOP sign which has no white line where would you stop?

4. What position would you take up for a right turn in a one way street?

5. How would you know a Zebra crossing at night?

6. What does the island in the centre of a pedestrian crossing mean?

7. Name the restrictions in relation to the use of the horn?

8. When driving at night when should you dip your headlights?

9. What should you do if you are dazzled by the lights of an oncoming vehicle?

10. What is a Clearway?

11. What does a broken yellow line mean?

12. What does a single yellow line mean?

13. What do a double yellow line mean?

14. What is the legal parking distance from the Kerb?

15. How close to a junction can you park?

16. Where should you not park?

17. Where should you not overtake?

18. What is the safe distance to drive from the car in front of you?

19. If you saw a red triangle on the road what would it mean?

20. At a junction when traffic lights are not working to whom would you give right of way?

21. What does a green traffic light mean?

22. What does an amber traffic light mean?

23. Name three people in authority for whom you must stop?

24. Describe the road markings for NO ENTRY?

25. When can you cross a continuous white line?

26. (a). What is the national general speed limit? (b). What is the Motorway speed limit? (C.) What is the acceptable tyre thread depth?

27. What rules apply to a box junction?

28. If there are two parallel lines in the centre of the road, one continuous and one broken, which one would you obey?

29. What do two broken parallel lines in the centre of the road mean?

30. What does a broken white line in the centre of the road mean?

31. What do white horizontal lines in the centre of the road mean?

32. Why is a STOP sign octagonal and a YIELD sign triangular ?

 

 

ANSWERS

1. When the driver in front of you is turning right, when you intend to turn left, when the vehicles in the lane on your right are moving slower than the vehicles in your lane?

2. Traffic on the right and traffic already turning.

3. At the STOP sign.

4. The extreme right and lane.

5. By the yellow flashing beacons.

6. Each side of the island is a separate crossing.

7. It must not be used between the hours of 11.30p.m. and 7.00a.m. in a built up area, except in an emergency.

8. (a) When meeting on-coming traffic. (b) When following close behind another vehicle. (c). On continuously lit roads. (d.) At the beginning and end of lighting up hours, i.e. dawn and dusk. (e). Or in fog or snow.

9. Slow down and stop if necessary.

10. Stopping and parking is prohibited, (except by buses or taxis) for a period indicated on the sign.

11. A broken yellow line means the edge of the roadway, (hard shoulder).

12. No parking at certain times, (generally during working hours).

13. No parking at anytime.

14. Half a meter.

15. 5 Metres.

16. Near a bend, the brow of a hill, a humpback bridge, at a continuous white line, where your vehicle would obstruct a sign, at an entrance, at a bus stop, opposite another vehicle on a narrow road or a taxi rank.

17. At a bend, a junction, the brow of a hill, a humpback bridge, at a continuous white line or anywhere your view of oncoming traffic is restricted.

18. Allow 1 metre for each M.P.H. (mile per hour), double that for wet roads, four times that for icy roads or observe the " two second rule".

19. That there is an obstruction on the road ahead.

20. Traffic on the right and traffic already turning.

21. Go, providing the junction is clear.

22. Stop, unless you are too close to stop safely behind the white line.

23. A Garda, a school warden or a person in charge of animals.

24. A continuous white line with a broken line behind it.

25. To avoid an obstruction, for access, or if there is a broken white line on your side of the continuous white line.

26. (a). 100 K.P.H. for cars. (b). 120 K.P.H. (c) 1.6mm Min.

27. You must not enter unless your way ahead is clear with the exception of turning right, when you can enter and wait in the box if you are not obstructing other traffic.

28. You obey the line on your side of the road

29. There will be one or two continuous white lines ahead.

30. You may overtake if it is safe to do so

31. You treat them like a traffic island, you do not enter (this ghost island)
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32. To be able to recognise them in snow conditions.

 



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