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Defensive driving

What the Belgian category-B theory exam expects you to know about defensive driving, and what RoadReady holds on it: 10 short lessons and 52 practice questions, each with a full explanation. Try one of them below, then study the rest in the app.

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Heavy fault · 5 points

A passenger urges the driver to go much faster. How does the code treat urging or challenging a driver to drive excessively fast?

  1. It is not an offence unless the driver actually speeds up
  2. It is not an offence, since only the driver can be at fault
  3. It is forbidden, and is a fourth-degree offence
  4. It is forbidden, and is a first-degree offence

The answer

C — It is forbidden, and is a fourth-degree offence

Why

Art. 10.4 forbids urging or challenging a driver to drive excessively fast, and the decree grading traffic offences lists it as a fourth-degree offence.

Why not

  • A The prohibition is on the urging itself and does not wait for a result.
  • B The article is addressed to anyone, not only to the driver.
  • D The decree grading traffic offences places it in the fourth degree, the most serious.

Source: KB of 1 December 1975 (Belgian Highway Code), art. 10.4; fourth-degree offence under the KB of 30 September 2005 grading traffic offences, art. 4, 2°

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