Safe driving and emergencies

186 questions. This topic differs from the rest: it tests behaviour rather than sign knowledge — what you do when visibility drops, when you are falling asleep, when the car stops or when there has been a crash.

Visibility sets the speed

Art. 19 names no figure: it requires you to be able to stop within the stretch you can see and that is clear. In fog that can be 30 km/h where 80 is allowed — the permitted speed stays permitted but stops being safe.

Dipped headlights go on at night and by day when visibility is seriously reduced. The rear fog light is allowed only below 50 metres of visibility, and that is a threshold of VISIBILITY, not of the weather.

Try it yourself: [visibility and weather](/en/oefenen?onderwerp=vision-weather) — 30 questions.

Fatigue and the phone

The ban on holding a phone is written about “anyone driving a vehicle” — with no list of categories, so a moped counts too. The law puts no figures on fatigue, but the questions test understanding: stopping for twenty minutes of sleep works, coffee and an open window do not.

Try it yourself: [fatigue and distraction](/en/oefenen?onderwerp=fatigue-distraction-phone) — 24 questions.

Breakdown: the triangle at thirty metres

The warning triangle goes about 30 metres back, on the side of the traffic you endanger. With hazard lights on, that duty falls away — but in thick fog or around a bend, flashing lights are less visible than a triangle.

The numbers are in the [distances](/en/tables/afstanden) table.

Try it yourself: [breakdown on the road](/en/oefenen?onderwerp=breakdown-behaviour) — 36 questions.

A crash: the order of actions

Stop, mark the spot, help the injured, exchange details. Driving on after a crash is a separate offence under the WVW, and a heavier one than the crash itself.

Try it yourself: [after a crash](/en/oefenen?onderwerp=accident-response) — 18 questions.

What to remember

There is almost nothing here to memorise, and almost every question tests one thing: do you see the difference between “allowed” and “safe”. If an answer sounds like “the law permits it” — read the question again.