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Speed & speed limits

What the Belgian category-B theory exam expects you to know about speed & speed limits, and what RoadReady holds on it: 7 short lessons and 51 practice questions, each with a full explanation. Try one of them below, then study the rest in the app.

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Some questions on the real exam cover serious offences, and many of them come from this topic. A wrong answer on one of those costs five points instead of one, and two such mistakes mean an automatic fail, whatever your other answers score. Worth getting right.

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Heavy fault · 5 points

You are driving a car on a Belgian motorway. Nothing lower is posted. What is the maximum?

  1. 90 km/h
  2. 100 km/h
  3. 120 km/h
  4. 130 km/h

The answer

C — 120 km/h

Why

The Belgian motorway maximum for a car is 120 km/h, unless a lower limit is posted.

Why not

  • A 90 is the motorway ceiling for a vehicle over 3.5 tonnes, not for a car.
  • B 100 applies only on a stretch where it is actually posted.
  • D 130 is a limit used in some neighbouring countries. Belgium's motorway maximum is 120.

Source: Belgian Highway Code (KB 01/12/1975) art. 11.2.1° a). The exam counts a question about the maximum permitted speed as a serious-offence question: KB of 23 March 1998 on the driving licence, bijlage 4, read with the Law of 16 March 1968, art. 29 §3.

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