Driving licence test: practice questions

Try three questions

Three questions from the Tanzania bank, as you'll see them in the app.

1. What must a driver approaching an intersection do about speed?

   1. Maintain whatever speed is already being driven, since slowing down is optional
   2. Exercise such extra care as local conditions require and drive at a speed allowing the vehicle to stop, or to allow a driver with the right of way to pass
   3. Accelerate through the junction to clear it before other traffic arrives
   4. Come to a complete stop at every intersection without exception
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   Answer: Exercise such extra care as local conditions require and drive at a speed allowing the vehicle to stop, or to allow a driver with the right of way to pass

   Section 50(18) requires a driver approaching an intersection to exercise such extra care as local conditions make appropriate, and in particular to drive at a speed allowing the vehicle to stop, or to allow a vehicle with the right of way to pass.

2. At a junction where both traffic signals and traffic signs regulating priority are present and appear to conflict, whose instructions take precedence, subject to a police officer's directions?

   1. The traffic sign always overrides the traffic signal
   2. The traffic signal takes precedence over instructions conveyed by traffic signs regulating priority
   3. Neither has precedence; the driver may choose whichever is more convenient, as a matter of long-standing police practice across Mainland Tanzania
   4. Only the vehicle that arrives first is bound by either instruction
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   Answer: The traffic signal takes precedence over instructions conveyed by traffic signs regulating priority

   Section 73(3) provides that, notwithstanding the general duty in subsection (2) to comply with signs and signals alike, instructions conveyed by traffic signals take precedence over instructions conveyed by traffic signs regulating priority, subject to section 73(4) on a police officer's own directions.

3. What is the maximum penalty for taking and driving away a motor vehicle or trailer without the owner's consent?

   1. A fine not exceeding fifteen thousand shillings or imprisonment not exceeding five years
   2. A mandatory life sentence with no fine option
   3. A fixed penalty of forty shillings only
   4. There is no criminal penalty; it is a purely civil matter, save where the Minister has granted a specific exemption by notice published in the Gazette
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   Answer: A fine not exceeding fifteen thousand shillings or imprisonment not exceeding five years

   Section 62(1) makes taking and driving away a vehicle without the owner's consent an offence carrying a fine not exceeding fifteen thousand shillings or imprisonment not exceeding five years.

Where the questions come from

Written from the published rules · Road Traffic Act, Cap. 168 (Parliament of Tanzania). See every official source

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