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10 free practice questions on traffic rules for the Dutch CBR car theory exam. Speeds, overtaking, lanes, lights, parking and stopping: the rules you need everywhere. After every answer you see the explanation and the source. The app has 297 questions on this topic.

What you need to know

Inside the built-up area the default is 50 km/h, but mostly 30 in Amsterdam.
Outside the built-up area the default is 80 km/h; on an autoweg 100 km/h.
During the day (06:00-19:00) almost every motorway is limited to 100 km/h.
Matrix signs and yellow roadworks signs always override fixed signs.
With a trailer lower maxima apply; on a woonerf you drive at most 15 km/h.

From the theory guide: Speed limits and every exception · Special Road Types and Their Rules · Lighting: dipped beam, main beam, fog lamps, hazard lights and tunnels

10 free questions on traffic rules

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1. You are in a parking-disc zone and see a parking spot marked with a blue stripe. What must you do to park here legally?

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Je bent in een parkeerschijf-zone en ziet een parkeerplaats met een blauwe streep. Wat moet je doen om hier te mogen parkeren?

Explanation: At spots with a blue stripe, you may only park with a clearly visible parking disc (art. 25 paras. 1-2 RVV 1990); without markings, parking in the zone is forbidden altogether.NL: Een parkeerschijf duidelijk zichtbaar plaatsen Source: RVV 1990 art. 25 lid 1-2

2. Marked parking bays are indicated on a road. How must you park here?

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Op een weg zijn parkeervakken met belijning aangegeven. Hoe moet je hier parkeren?

Explanation: If parking bays are marked, the driver must park within them (art. 24 para. 4 RVV 1990).NL: Binnen de aangegeven vakken Source: RVV 1990 art. 24 lid 4

3. You are merging from the acceleration lane onto the through carriageway of the motorway. What must you do?

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Je voegt in vanaf de invoegstrook naar de doorgaande rijbaan van de autosnelweg. Wat moet je doen?

Explanation: Drivers performing a special maneuver, such as merging from the acceleration lane onto the through carriageway, must give way to the other traffic (art. 54 RVV 1990).NL: Het overige verkeer op de doorgaande rijbaan voor laten gaan Source: RVV 1990 art. 54

4. In the built-up area you enter this 30 zone. After two junctions you still have not seen any other speed sign. What is the maximum speed there?

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Je rijdt binnen de bebouwde kom deze zone 30 binnen. Na twee kruispunten heb je nog steeds geen ander snelheidsbord gezien. Welke maximumsnelheid geldt daar?

Explanation: Art. 66 RVV 1990: if the word 'zone' appears above a sign, the sign applies in the whole area up to the sign marking the end of the zone. Junctions do not end it. The 50 km/h of art. 20 applies again only after the end-of-zone sign; 15 km/h applies only in a home zone (art. 45).NL: 30 km/h, tot je een bord 'einde zone 30' passeert Source: RVV 1990 art. 66; art. 20; bijlage 1 bord A1 (zone)

5. In this shopping street is sign E2 (no stopping). You want to stop here briefly to unload a heavy box from your car. Is that allowed?

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Bij deze winkelstraat staat bord E2 (verbod stil te staan). Je wilt hier even stoppen om een zware doos uit je auto te laden. Mag dat?

Explanation: No. Sign E2 forbids stopping itself. Loading and unloading is not parking (art. 1 RVV 1990), but it is stopping, and exactly that is forbidden here. Under a no-parking sign (E1) immediate loading or unloading would be allowed.NL: Nee Source: RVV 1990 bijlage 1 bord E2; art. 1 (parkeren)

6. Outside the built-up area a bus is at a stop and indicates with its direction indicator that it wants to pull out. Are you legally obliged to give it the opportunity to pull out?

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Buiten de bebouwde kom staat een lijnbus bij een halte en geeft met zijn richtingaanwijzer aan dat hij wil wegrijden. Ben je wettelijk verplicht hem de gelegenheid te geven om weg te rijden?

Explanation: No. The duty to let a bus pull out from a stop applies under art. 56(1) RVV 1990 only inside the built-up area. Outside the built-up area the bus driver performs a special manoeuvre (art. 54) and must let you go first. Making allowance for the bus of course remains sensible.NL: Nee Source: RVV 1990 art. 56 lid 1; art. 54

7. Your passenger wants to get out exactly at this equal junction, because his destination is on the corner. May you stop briefly on the junction for that?

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Je passagier wil precies op dit gelijkwaardige kruispunt uitstappen, omdat zijn bestemming op de hoek ligt. Mag je daarvoor op het kruispunt kort stilstaan?

Explanation: No. Art. 23(1)(a) RVV 1990 forbids stopping on a junction, even to let a passenger out immediately. Cross the junction and stop only where it is allowed (at least 5 metres beyond the junction if you want to park, art. 24).NL: Nee Source: RVV 1990 art. 23 lid 1 onder a

8. You approach this junction with sign B7 (stop) and a stop line. You see no traffic anywhere on the crossing road. Do you still have to come to a complete stop?

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Je nadert dit kruispunt met bord B7 (stop) en een stopstreep. Je ziet nergens verkeer op de kruisende weg. Moet je toch helemaal stoppen?

Explanation: Yes. Sign B7 means: stop and give way to drivers on the crossing road. Art. 79 RVV 1990 requires you to stop before the stop line whenever stopping is mandatory under the RVV. Seeing no traffic changes nothing.NL: Ja Source: RVV 1990 art. 79; bijlage 1 bord B7

9. You are parked at the kerb and want to pull away. The street is empty; you see no other road user at all. Do you still have to signal with your direction indicator?

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Je staat geparkeerd langs de stoeprand en wilt wegrijden. De straat is leeg; je ziet geen enkele andere weggebruiker. Moet je toch een teken met je richtingaanwijzer geven?

Explanation: Yes. Art. 55 RVV 1990: drivers of a motor vehicle must signal with their direction indicator when they want to pull away. The law makes no exception for an empty street; moreover you may have overlooked someone.NL: Ja Source: RVV 1990 art. 55

10. Outside the built-up area you are driving on a priority road (sign B1). May you stop briefly on the carriageway here to let your passenger out immediately?

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Buiten de bebouwde kom rijd je op een voorrangsweg (bord B1). Mag je hier op de rijbaan kort stilstaan om je passagier direct te laten uitstappen?

Explanation: Yes. Art. 24(1)(c) RVV 1990 forbids only parking on the carriageway of a priority road outside the built-up area. Letting a passenger out immediately is not parking (art. 1) but stopping, and that is not among the stopping bans of art. 23. Do choose a spot with good visibility.NL: Ja Source: RVV 1990 art. 24 lid 1 onder c; art. 1 (parkeren); art. 23

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🏙️5️⃣0️⃣Inside the built-up area the limit is 50 km/h.

Picture a giant swan (shaped like a 5) floating next to an empty plate (0) in a canal: 50 through town. The swan hisses at every speeder: 'Easy, this is the built-up area!'

🐄8️⃣0️⃣Outside the built-up area the limit is 80 km/h.

Outside town a fat cow with a figure-8 pattern (two round spots) stands by a round hay-bale zero: 80 past the meadows. 'Ate-y, eighty!' she moos.

🚗🔴1️⃣0️⃣0️⃣On the autoweg (red sign with white car) the limit is 100 km/h.

Autoweg = one car on a red sign, and one car drives a hundred: a 1 with two wheels behind it = 100. Remember: red car, round hundred.

🛣️☀️1️⃣0️⃣0️⃣🌙1️⃣3️⃣0️⃣On the motorway the limit is 130 km/h, but daytime 06:00-19:00 it is 100 km/h.

On the motorway the 130 sleeps in by day: while the sun shines (6-19h) you may only do 100, and only when the moon rises do you leap to 130. Sun = hundred, moon = more.

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10 free questions on traffic rules

1. You are in a parking-disc zone and see a parking spot marked with a blue stripe. What must you do to park here legally?

2. Marked parking bays are indicated on a road. How must you park here?

3. You are merging from the acceleration lane onto the through carriageway of the motorway. What must you do?

4. In the built-up area you enter this 30 zone. After two junctions you still have not seen any other speed sign. What is the maximum speed there?

5. In this shopping street is sign E2 (no stopping). You want to stop here briefly to unload a heavy box from your car. Is that allowed?

6. Outside the built-up area a bus is at a stop and indicates with its direction indicator that it wants to pull out. Are you legally obliged to give it the opportunity to pull out?

7. Your passenger wants to get out exactly at this equal junction, because his destination is on the corner. May you stop briefly on the junction for that?

8. You approach this junction with sign B7 (stop) and a stop line. You see no traffic anywhere on the crossing road. Do you still have to come to a complete stop?

9. You are parked at the kerb and want to pull away. The street is empty; you see no other road user at all. Do you still have to signal with your direction indicator?

10. Outside the built-up area you are driving on a priority road (sign B1). May you stop briefly on the carriageway here to let your passenger out immediately?

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