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What must you reckon with in residential areas with
little traffic?
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A. Children at play often run onto the roadway
B. Pedestrians and cyclists are frequently
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A. The boy could set off at any moment
A ball rolls out into the roadway in front of your B. The boy might look right but stili set off
vehicle in a residential area. How should you react?
A. Reduce speed at once and remain ready to
brake
B. Stop if children run onto the roadway
What must you do?
You are approaching children playing on the
pavement. What should you do?
A. Reduce speed and remain ready to brake
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A. You must keep a close eye on the children
A. Rash behaviour on the part of the children and proceed cautiously
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What must you be prepared for? What must you be prepared for?
A. The boy ahead of you could turn right to
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A. One of the children could turn back to
follow the other child collect the ball
B. The boy ahead of you could turn right B. The girl could turn back and run to the other
without signalling a change of direction children
What must you do? What do you have to do?
A. Brake heavily Immediately and remain ready A. Reduce speed, remain ready to brake and
to brake drive cautiously past
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What do you have to do? A pedestrian with a white stick wants to cross the
roadway in front of you. What do you have to do?
A. Reduce speed and, If necessary, stop
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What must you reckon with?
A. Brake immediately and remain ready to
brake
What do you have to do?
A. People crossing the street In front of the
bus
B. People running across the street from the
left to catch the bus
The bus has come to a halt at the stop. Under
which conditions are you allowed to pass at
walking speed?
A. Brake and, If necessary, stop
What must you reckon with when elderly people are
crossing the roadway?
A. They do not always pay attention to vehicle
traffic
B. They often stop abruptly on the roadway
C. They often turn back in the middle of the A. If danger for passengers boarding and
roadway alighting Is excluded
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What must you reckon with when children are Which vehicles may pass here at walking speed
waiting at traffic lights? only, provided that passengers are not endangered
in any way?
A. The children will start running when their
lights change from green to amber
B. The children also start running when the
light Is red because they cannot wait
C. The children will push each other into the
roadway
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A group of children is cycling on a cycle track. What
must you heed in general?
A. The children will move onto the roadway
without paying attention
B. The children will move too far onto the
roadway A. All vehicles travelling in the same direction
B. All vehicles travelling in the opposite
direction
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Which statements are correct? (Brake lights on)
What must you heed in this situation?
A. You may pass on the right-hand side at
walking speed provided that passengers are A. You may pass the stationary bus at walking
not Impeded and you are sure no-one is speed provided you are sure that
endangered passengers are not endangered
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Why are elderly pedestrians more at risk in traffic What must you do?
than younger people?
A. Their eyesight and hearing are often poorer
B. Their reactions are slower and they are less
agile
C. They cannot always judge the speed of
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You want to turn left. What must you be prepared
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!.. A. Brake and, if possible, pass slowly on the
left
B. "Keep sufficient lateral distance to the
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A child is walking on the pavement with a dog on
a lead. Can this cause a dangerous situation?
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B. The pedestrian might let the truck pass then
cross the roadway In front of you
C. After the truck has turned, the pedestrians
roadway and pulls the child along behind
B. Yes, Ifthe dog tears away and the child
runs after the dog
may come from the opposite side
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A. Pedestrians sometimes step off the roadway A. You may pass at walking speed only
without paying attention B. You may pass only if you are sure that
B. Pedestrians often run across the roadway In pedestrians are not endangered
order to catch the bus
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statements are correct in this situation? What must you be prepared for when a truck in front
of you wishes to tum right into a narrow street?
A. The truck wiii reduce speed drastically
B. The truck will swing out to the left before
turning
What must you be prepared for in this situation?
A. Cars coming from the opposite direction
may pass the bus provided that they do so
with care
B. You may pass the bus provided that you do
so with care
A. The sudden appearance of oncoming traffic
B. The bus driver sUddenly jumping to the left
Which statements are correct in this situation? side
(Hazard warning lights on) C. Oncoming traffic concealed by the bus
When can a cyclist represent a danger for you?
A. The bus may be passed in either lane but no
faster than at walking speed
B. Vehicles in both lanes must stop if
passengers would otherwise be endangered
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When the cyclist switches to the roadway
without paying attention to the traffic
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You are approaching a school. Children are leaving Why are motorcyclists particularly at risk?
the school grounds. What must you reckon with?
A. Because they are easily overlooked
A. That children rush onto the road without B. Because their speed is often
thinking underestimated
B. That children ride their bicycles onto the C. Because they are exposed to greater risk
road without paying attention of injury in accidents.
At a bus stop, passengers are getting on and off
What must you reckon with? the bus onto the roadway.What do you do if you
want to drive past on the left?
A. Wait if passengers can be endangered or
inconvenienced
B. Drive cautiously at walking speed past if
this is possible without endangering or
inconveniencing passengers.
What must you observe when driving past a bus
which has stopped at a bus stop?
A. Keep a sufficient distance from the bus
A. The moped rider could pull out to the right to and drive past cautiously, since
overtake the cyclist pedestrians might suddenly cross the
B. The driver of the van could step onto the roadway in front of the bus
road while unloading
C. Pedestrians crossing the road in front of the
van
What do you do when a bus has stopped at a bus
\ stop with its hazard warning lights switched on?
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What must you be prepared for in this situation? A. Drive past at walking speed only and, if
necessary, stop
B. Drive past at a sufficient distance in order
to exclude endangering pede\;trians
C. Wait if passengers could be
inconvenienced
Which vehicles must you allow to set off from
marked bus stops?
A. Regular buses
B. School buses
A. That the braking distance will be longer
B. That the driver could suddenly steer into
your lane
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a bus stop on the same roadway with hazard behave at zebra crossings?
warning lights switched on. What do you do?
A. They look neither right nor left
A. Slow down to walking speed B. They step unexpectedly onto the roadway
C. They sometimes turn back in the middle of
the roadway
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A bus is driving in the middle of the of the roadway L.
and reaches a bus stop where passengers are
waiting at the edge of the roadway. What do you do
shortly before the bus comes to a stop? ..
A. I remain behind the bus in order not to
endanger the passengers
A. Brake early In order to show the pedestrians
You are approaching a regular bus, which has
that they may pass
stopped in the op'posite direction at a bus stop on
your roadway and its hazard warning lights are
switched on. What must you expect?
A. Passengers will cross the roadway in order
to catch the bus
B. Passengers leaving the bus will suddenly What must you do here?
cross the roadway.
Behaviour at pedestrian
crossings and subways
What conduct must you expect of children at zebra
A. Stop to allow the pedestrians to cross the
crossings?
roadway
A. They will run onto the zebra crossing
without paying attention to traffic
B. They will turn around on the zebra crossing
for no apparent reason and run back
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In which cases must you approach a zebra crossing A truck stops in the left lane on a zebra crossing.
whichparticularcare? You are driving in the right lane. What do you do?
I A. When pedestrians want to cross the A. Walt because pedestrians might cross the
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B. When the view of the zebra crossing is
obstructed
C. When another vehicle is already waiting at
the zebra crossing.
You are in congested traffic and must wait. There
What applies immediately before and on zebra is a pedestrian crossing in front of you. What do
crossings? you do?
A. You may not overtake A. Leavethe crossing free
B. You may not stop
A cyclist wrongly crosses the zebra crossings
without getting off his bicycle. What is correct?
There is mud on a pedestrian crossing and only
A. Give in and let the cyclist cross the roadway
the sign "Pedestrian Crossing" is visible. A
pedestrian wants to cross the roadway. What do
you do?
What do you do in this situation?
A. Cautiously brake In good time
B. Stop if necessary so that the pedestrian
can cross the roadway.
Why is it particularly important to brake in good
time when approaching a zebra crossing?
A. So that pedestrian are not scared or made
insecure
B. To avoid front-end collision
A. I let the pedestrian cross the roadway
B. I wait at the zebra crossing until the van has
turned off You come to a stop unexpectedly on a pedestrian
crossing. What do you do?
A. Move slightly forward or backward In
order to clear the crossing as quickly as
A pedestrian want to cross the roadway on a zebra possible
crossing. What do you do?
A. Approach at moderate speed and wait If
necessary
B. Do not overtake under any circumstances
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