At night, if you stop or park on an expressway because of a breakdown, you must turn on your hazard lights or tail lights in addition to placing the warning device.
Answer: ○ True
Explanation
When stopping or parking on an expressway at night, you must turn on the hazard lights, parking lights, or tail lights in addition to the warning device. In the daytime, the warning device alone is enough.
More questions on “Accidents & emergencies”
- If your car stops moving inside a railroad crossing, first alert the train driver, for example by pressing the emergency button, and get everyone in the car to a safe place.
- When going through a railroad crossing, you must in every case stop just before it and check that it is safe.
- If the brakes stop working while you are driving, shift to a lower gear to use engine braking, and also use the hand brake to reduce speed.
- If a major earthquake occurs while you are driving, stop the car on the left side of the road as safely as you can, stop the engine, and evacuate leaving the key in the car and the doors unlocked.
- When evacuating after a major earthquake, you should evacuate quickly by car in order to avoid traffic confusion.
- Even in the daytime, you must turn on your headlights when driving through places where you cannot see 50 meters ahead, such as inside tunnels or in fog.
Questions and explanations are written against Japan’s Road Traffic Act and the National Police Agency’s Rules of the Road. These are not official exam questions.