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GENERAL Learning Environment Category C (C, C1)
Question 317 of 533

You are being overtaken by a motor vehicle whose driver has wrongly assessed the distance and the speed at which another vehicle is approaching from the opposite direction. How must you proceed in order to avoid a road accident?

A increase the driving speed, in order to determine the one overtaking you to give up the maneuver;
B sound the horn and signal with your arm not to overtake anymore;
C immediately reduce the speed and drive as close as possible to the right edge of the carriageway, in order to allow him to perform the overtaking and to re-enter the normal direction of travel.

Explanation

When you are being overtaken by a motor vehicle whose driver has wrongly assessed the distance and the speed at which another vehicle is approaching from the opposite direction, you must reduce the speed and drive as close as possible to the right edge of the carriageway, in order to allow him to perform the overtaking and to re-enter the normal direction of travel. Thus you avoid the occurrence of a road accident. You must proceed in the same way also in the situation in which from the opposite direction a motor vehicle is overtaking that has wrongly assessed the distance and the speed at which you are approaching.

The correct answer is: C


Recommendations:
Find here the preventive driving course --> Preventive driving course
The overtaking maneuver and the places where overtaking is prohibited - Audio-Video Lesson --> Road Traffic Code - Overtaking

Reference articles

Regulation** - Article 119

The driver of the vehicle who is about to be overtaken is obliged:
a) not to increase the driving speed;
b) to drive as close as possible to the right edge of the carriageway or of the lane on which he is traveling.


** Regulation = REGULATION for the implementation of OUG 195/2002 updated (Road Traffic Code Regulation)

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