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Questions and Answers:

1. When can you overtake on the left? Answer
When the driver in front of you is turning right; when you intend to turn left and traffic in the lane on your right is moving slowly.

2. At a junction with roads of equal importance, to whom should you give way?Answer
Traffic on the right and traffic already turning.

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

4. What position would you take up for a right turn in a one way street?Answer
The extreme right hand lane.

5. How would you know a zebra crossing at night?Answer
By the yellow flashing beacons.

6. What does the island in the centre of a pedestrian crossing mean?Answer
Each side of the island is a separate crossing.

7. Name the restrictions in relation to the use the horn?Answer
It must not be used between the hours of 11.30pm and 7.00am, in a built up area, except in an emergency.

8. When driving at night when should you dip your headlights? Answer
(A) When meeting oncoming traffic. (B) When following close behind another vehicle. (C) On continuously light roads. (D) At the beginning and end of lighting up hours. (E) In fog or snow.

9. What should you do if dazzled by lights of an oncoming car?Answer
Slow down and stop if necessary.

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

11. What does a broken yellow line mean?Answer
A broken yellow line marks the edge of the road (also known as the hard shoulder).

12. What does a single yellow line mean?Answer
No parking a certain times (generally during working hours).

13. What does a double yellow line mean?Answer
No parking at any time.

14. What is the legal parking distance from the kerb?Answer
Half a metre.

15. How close to a junction can you park?Answer
Five metres.

16. Where should you not park?Answer
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 an narrow road, or a taxi rank.

17. Where should you not overtake?Answer
At a bend, a junction, a brow of a hill, hump back bridge, at a continuous white line or anywhere your view of oncoming traffic is restricted.

18. What is the safe distance to drive from the car in front?Answer
Allow one metre for each KPH and double if the surface is wet or observe the "2 second rule".

19. If you saw a red triangle on the road, what would it mean?Answer
That there is a obstruction or breakdown ahead.

20. At a junction when traffic lights are not working to whom would you give way?Answer
Traffic on the right and traffic already turning.

21. What does a green traffic light mean?Answer
Go, provided the junction is clear.

22. What does an amber traffic light mean?Answer
Stop, unless you are too close to stop safely behind the white lines.

23. Name three people in authority for whom you must stop?
A Garda, A School Warden, or a person in charge of animals.

24. Describe the road markings for NO ENTRY?Answer
A continuous white line with a broken white line behind it.

25. When can you cross a continuous white line?Answer
To avoid an obstruction, for access, or if there is a broken white line on your side of the continuous white line.

26. (A) What is the national speed limit?
(B) What is the motorway speed limit?
(C) What is the new tyre depth? Answer
(A) 100 KM.P.H. for cars on all national roads and dual carriage ways, 80 KM.P.H. on all regional and local roads, (80 KM.P.H. for trucks, buses and towing vehicles).
(B) 120 KM.P.H.
(C) 1.6mm.

27. What rules apply to a box junction?Answer
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. If there are two parallel lines in the centre of the road, one continuous, one broken,
which one would you obey? Answer
You obey the line on your side of the road.

29. What do two broken parallel lines in the centre of the road means?Answer
There will be one or two continuous white lines ahead.

30. What does a broken white line in the centre of the road mean?Answer
You may overtake if safe to do so.

31. What do white horizontal lines in the centre of the road mean?Answer
You treat them like a traffic island, you do not enter.

32. Why is a STOP sign octagonal and a YIELD sign triangular?Answer
To recognize them in snow conditions.

Questions

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 the horn?
8. When driving at night when should you dip your headlights?
9. What should you do if dazzled by lights of an oncoming car?
10. What is a clearway?
11. What does a broken yellow line mean?
12. What does a single yellow line mean?
13. What does 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?
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 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 speed limit?
      (B) What is the motorway speed limit?
      (C) What is the new tyre depth?
27. What rules apply to a box junction?
28. If there are two parallel lines in the centre of the road, one continuous, one broken, which one would you obey?
29. What do two broken parallel lines in the centre of the road means?
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 and traffic in the lane on your right is moving slowly.
2. Traffic on the right and traffic already turning.
3. At the STOP sign.
4. The extreme right hand 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 11.30pm and 7.00am, in a built up area, except in an emergency.
8.  (A) When meeting oncoming traffic.
     (B) When following close behind another vehicle.
     (C) On continuously light roads.
     (D) At the beginning and end of lighting up hours.
     (E) 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 marks the edge of the road (also known as the hard shoulder).
12. No parking a certain times (generally during working hours).
13. No parking at any time.
14. Half a metre.
15. Dive 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 an narrow road, or a taxi rank.
17. At a bend, a junction, a brow of a hill, hump back bridge, at a continuous white line or anywhere your view of oncoming traffic is restricted.
18. Allow one metre for each KPH and double if the surface is wet or observe the "2 second rule".
19. That there is a obstruction or breakdown ahead.
20. Traffic on the right and traffic already turning.
21. Go, provided the junction is clear.
22. Stop, unless you are too close to stop safely behind the white lines.
23. A Garda, A School Warden, or a person in charge of animals.
24. A continuous white line with a broken white 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 KM.P.H. for cars on all national roads and dual carriage ways, 80 KM.P.H. on all regional and local roads, (80 KM.P.H. for trucks, buses and towing vehicles).
     (B) 120 KM.P.H.
     (C) 1.6mm.
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 safe to do so.
31. You treat them like a traffic island, you do not enter.
32. To recognize them in snow conditions.