What can be the cause for veering off the roadway?
- Excessive speed
- Inattentiveness, distraction
- Fatigue
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What must you do if you notice signs of fatigue when driving on open stretches of road at night (heavy eyelids, feeling chilly, sudden frights, etc.)?
- Interrupt your journey for an adequate break
How can fatigue be prevented on a long journey?
- By well-timed and sufficient stops for rests
- Gymnastic exercises during stops
What can diminish alertness in road traffic?
- Strong emotions (e.g. delight, annoyance, impatience)
- Animated conversation
- Engrossing programs on the car radio
What strongly distracts you while you are driving?
- Telephoning
- Lighting a cigarette
- Nagging children on the backseats
What can prevent you from hearing warning signals?
- Having the radio on too loud
- Using headphones
- The exhaust being too loud
What does "power sound" in the car result in?
- Signals from other traffic - in particular sirens - are not heard
- There is noise pollution for others even when the windows are closed
- Driving errors due to the driver being diverted
A motorist has drunk too much alcohol and for this reason must not drive. How can his fitness to drive not be restored in a short time?
- By sleeping for half an hour
- By drinking two cups of strong coffee
- By going for a half hour's walk
Can a motorist's fitness to drive be impaired by even relatively small quantities of alcohol?
- Yes, even small quantities of alcohol can impair fitness to drive
Which substances can impair fitness to drive in a similar way to alcohol?
- Certain medicines and intoxicants
What can impair fitness to drive?
- Fatigue
- Alcohol and other intoxicants
- Certain medicines
Above which alcohol level in your blood can you expect your fitness to drive to be impaired?
- 0.3 per mille (30 mg/100 ml)
In general, how long does it take before an alcohol level of 1.0 per mille (100 mg/100 ml) is cleared from the blood stream?
- 10 hours
What can increase the intoxicating effect of alcohol?
- Sleeping pills, pain killers or sedatives
- Drinking on an "empty" stomach
- Downing alcoholic drinks in one
What can be the effects of even small quantities of alcohol?
- Delayed reactions
- Reckless driving
- Impairment of hearing and vision
What effects can drugs have?
- Intoxication
- Dependence, addiction
Which drugs can make a person temporarily unfit to drive even when consumed on a single occasion?
- Hashish, marijuana
- Heroin, cocaine, amphetamines
- LSD, dagga
How long can hashish and its catabolites (decomposition products) be detected in urine?
- Weeks later
Which of the following are unfit to drive motor vehicles?
- Persons who regularly take drugs (e.g. hashish, heroin, cocaine), even if they are not unfit to drive at the time of the journey
- Persons who smoke a single hashish cigarette per day
May a person who has just smoked a hashish cigarette drive a motor vehicle?
- No, because he/she could be unfit to drive
When is a drug-dependent person fit to drive a motor vehicle again?
- After presenting a proof that he/she has not taken any drugs for a whole year and there is no likelihood of a relapse
How is the intoxicating substance in hashish broken down by the body?
- Unevenly over an indeterminate period
Why are drugs (e.g. hashish, heroin, cocaine) still dangerous even if they are just taken on a single occasion?
- They can cause the person to be unfit to drive
- They can produce intoxication lasting several hours
What are the consequences for a person driving a motor vehicle under the influence of drugs (e.g. hashish, heroin, cocaine)?
- Confiscation of driving license or driving ban
- Fine and/or imprisonment
- Compulsory medical/psychological examination
What are the possible effects of hashish consumption?
- Intoxication with dangerous hallucination and reduced reaction capability
- Intoxication with confusion and depression
What are the possible effects of hashish consumption?
- Diminished awareness of danger
- Increased likelihood of mistakes in assimilating information
- Misjudgement of speed and distance
What are the possible effects of hashish consumption?
- Impaired attention and concentration
Immediately before setting off you have felt very angry and you are furious. What is right?
- You should not drive when you are furious
What do you think of drivers who travel too fast under pressure of time and do not observe speed regulations?
- Pressure of time is no justification for ignoring traffic regulations
A car with a young driver has stopped next to you at a red traffic light. He is playing with his accelerator and obviously intends to start first and shake you off when the lights change. How do you react?
- You ignore the challenge, remain cool and let the other car drive off