Chapter 4 Flashcards
Oncoming traffic and keeping right
Keep as right as possible and safely as possible
- Move to right on narrow road with oncoming traffic
- If oncoming can’t swerve, you do so and move as far over as possible
-If swerve on verge, be sure you can drive on it
Narrowing roads and oncoming traffic
Traffic signs F5-F6 will indicate who has the right of way
- White or black arrow means oncoming vehicles must stop
- Move over when approaching pedestrians
- Lorries and buses go first if there is no sign
Obstacles and oncoming traffic
you let oncoming traffic go first if there is an obstacle in front of you, unless both can pass
One way road
- One direction
- Do not generally apply to cyclists/moped drivers
- May not reverse in one way streets (unless parking)
- May not turn around
Mopeds on roadways
If see signs with G11 or G12b on paths, you know mopeds will be on roadways
-Stay behind if not safe to overtake mopeds
Risks of mopeds/cyclists on road
- sometimes will drive side by side on road
- cyclists do not always pay attention to rules of the road
- mopeds are not allowed to overtake you on the right, but they often do
Those allowed on bicycle lanes
-cyclists, motor assisted bicycles
Bicycle lane with solid line
Drivers may not drive into lane, or to use as a right turn lane
Bicycle lane with broken line
Drivers may use the lane as right-turn lane if improves the flow of traffic and doesn’t impede on people in cyclist lane
Dual carriageways is…
A road divided into 2 carriageways by central reserve, row of tree etc..
- Signs will tell you where you must travel and some times will tell you where you can’t go.
- If no signs, keep right
If dual carriageway road has 3 or more lanes
vehicles without engines, cyclists and riders of motor assisted bicycles and motor vehicles that don’t go faster than 25 km/h use the further right lane
usually this is a service road and is used by slow traffic - they aren’t allowed to use center lane - indicated by signs C8 or C9
-Other traffic can go on both right and center lanes, if can access a service road from two directions, will see C5 sign (two arrows going different ways)
Driving on a single carriageway road
Move as far to the right as possible especially when there is oncoming traffic
-May lose control if go on verge, so be careful if overtaking
Risks on single carriageway roads
- Blocking trees of side roads
- trees blocking bends
- little chance to move out of way
- you have little time to see ppl coming onto the road
- If trees make tunnel - adjust speed and use dipped headlights
- Wet leaves increase chance of skidding
- in winter, roads will remain wet for longer because of shade
If sunny on single carriageway with trees
- Drivers have difficulty seeing because of flashing light
- harder to estimate distances
- it is more difficult for others to see you
In rural areas on single carriageway pay attention to
- bus agricultural traffic
- dirty roads
- cyclists
- horse riders
Bends - General
-signs generally indicate sharp bends
Judge the bend
- Select gear for bend in time and adjust speed
- anticipate bend and width of roadway
- lines on road help with this anticipation
- be sure to look for oncoming traffic and those in front and behind you who may be driving slower
- Control speed and taking into account limitations of car
Spiral bend
Adjust speed and gear and keep right and you can judge sharpness of bend and whether you can safely overtake traffic ahead of you
-some bends are difficult because of spiral effect. Increasing turn and getting spiral effect may be reduced if adjust speed in time and select right gear
Dike roads: Unpleasant features
- winding and more complex than predicted to be
- rising entries and exits
- no or poor road lining
- poor on contaminated road surface
- narrow lanes
- slanting verges
- special banking
Traffic restrictions on dike roads
restricts drivers from:
- overtaking other vehicles easily
- often those coming up and onto road have restricted view
- predicting way/direction
- escape option (low)
Driving in mountains
- Avoid too high a gear
- Try to stay in same gear going down as up (brake little)
- Anticipate course
- adjust speed when descending
- be aware of road condition
- ascending has precedence over descending
- overtake with great caution
- weather conditions - rain causes lots of water and mud
- fog will make visibility hard and might force you to stop/slow down
Trunk road driving
- consists of single carriageway and oncoming traffic (but also have separate laned trunk roads)
- Indicated by signs saying ‘AUTOWEG’
Difference between trunk road from motorway
Trunk roads:
- oncoming traffic on same road
- level-road junctions
- generally has short acceleration lanes and no hard shoulder
- May only be allowed to travel on if in motor vehicles that are able to drive at least 50km/h (agricultural vehicles and microcars are not allowed)
Max speed is 100km/h
Motorways
- Always have separate carriageways
- hard shoulders
- division of two or more lanes
- specially signposted motorways
- If more than 3 lanes often have hard shoulder on left of carriageway
May only be used by vehicles that are able and allowed to travel at least 60km/h
Max speed limit of motorways
- 130km/h for cars and motorcycles
- Motorways indicated by G1
Lower max speed limit
- Often is indicated by road signs
- Will have hectometer signs indicating it
- 3 or more laned motorways will have signs indicating limit on left of road
Prohibitions on trunk and motorways
- reverse
- u-turn
- stop on carriageway
- drive, walk or stop vehicles (unless emergency) on hard shoulder or emerg parking area in verge
- pedestrians may not use hard shoulder, emergency parking area or the verge except in emergency
- for lorries and vehicles with trailers with length of 7 meters to use 3rd and subsequent lanes
Which lane to use…
When available, use right hand lane as much as possible
-May only use center lane if traffic that you may overtake is in right lane, or if intend to go in left lane
- bad habit to stay in center
- do not needlessly drive on left side either
- Allow merging traffic in or more over
Using rush hour lane
- When motorways are busy, this lane often opens
- Originally hard shoulders that are converted to be used as a lane
- Matrix indicates if it can/can’t be used (sometimes regulated by signs)
Road works
- often indicated 2 km ahead
- reduce speed in time (don’t overtake in last km and allow others to join lane safely)
- Be prepared for sudden braking, closeby road workers, suddenly crossing workers, congestion and construction traffic
Temporary lines
- yellow
- usually narrower roads than white lines
- drive with your left wheel close to or on the line to avoid going off the road - lack of hard shoulder makes it slightly more dangerous
Informative signs examples
informative signs, advance direction signs, lane changing signs, diversion signs and direction signs
When reading direction signs
May lead to dangerous situations as you’re paying attention to traffic and signs
Better to write down in advance the #s of motorways you need to travel on
Motorway branching
Indicated by green and white sign
-Roads on left and right are motorways
Map reading
Before leave and parked
Right-turn and left turn lanes on road surface
Lanes are usually indicated on road and on motorways, information signs are shown with arrows over the road
Schematic Junctions
-advances direction signs to say what approaching & where to go to follow certain direction (roundabouts are indicated in this way)
Kinds of roads
3 kinds:
- N-roads
- A-roads
- E-roads
N-Roads
Arterial roads that are non-motorways
-# on yellow background
A-Roads
Motorways in Netherlands
- # on red background
- A-roads are often also E-roads
E-roads
Usually european motorways
- trunk roads and other through roads may also be E-roads
- Agreed on internationally
- # on green background
