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Overtaking

What the Belgian category-B theory exam expects you to know about overtaking, and what RoadReady holds on it: 10 short lessons and 65 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

In fog you pull out to overtake a slow lorry although you cannot see far enough ahead to know whether anything is coming. Which article do you break, and how is it graded?

  1. Art. 17.2 3°, fourth degree
  2. No article: fog is not in the list of places
  3. Art. 16.7, third degree
  4. Art. 17.1, third degree

The answer

D — Art. 17.1, third degree

Why

Art. 17.1: overtaking on the left is forbidden when the driver cannot see oncoming road users from far enough away to overtake without danger; the KB of 30 September 2005, art. 3 9°, grades it third degree.

Why not

  • A Art. 17.2 3° is about crests and bends; the general visibility ban is art. 17.1.
  • B Art. 17.1 has no list; it applies wherever oncoming traffic cannot be seen from far enough.
  • C Art. 16.7 concerns the driver being overtaken.

Source: KB of 1 December 1975 (Belgian Highway Code), art. 17.1; KB of 30 September 2005 (offences by degree), art. 3 9°

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