Driving test questions – Ireland

To be able to recognise them in snow conditions.

You treat them like a traffic island, you do not enter (this ghost island)

You may overtake if it is safe to do so.

You obey the line on your side of the road.

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.

Minimum 1.6mm

120 K.P.H.

100 K.P.H. for cars.

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

A continuous white line with a broken line behind it.

Traffic on the right and traffic already turning

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

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

You should give way to traffic on the right and traffic already turning.

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 in queuing traffic?

Go, providing the junction is clear.

Traffic on the right and traffic already turning.

That there is an obstruction on the road ahead.

The extreme right and lane

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”.

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.

You can cross the line in order to avoid an obstruction, for access, or if there is a broken white line on your side of the continuous white line.

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.

5 Metres

You would take up position in the extreme right hand lane.

The legal parking distance is 45 centimeters, or 1.5 Ft.

A Zebra Crossing is ahead, no overtaking and no parking.

You should never park near a bend, the brow of a hill, a humpback bridge, at a continuous white line, where your vehicle would obstruct a sign or  entrance.

No parking at anytime.

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

There will be one or two continuous white lines ahead.

Aquaplaning  is when a film of water builds up between the tyres and the road and one’s steering and braking is affected.

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

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

Slow down and stop if necessary.

(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.(f) When you’re approaching a Junction.

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.

Each side of the island is a separate crossing.

By the yellow flashing beacons.

At the STOP sign.

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.

They should be treated like a traffic island and not enter the space between the lines.

You should always obey the line nearest you.

You should never overtake at a junction, the brow of a hill, a bend, a humpback bridge, at a continuous white line or anywhere your view of oncoming traffic is restricted.