A bus with all passengers seated and fitted with seatbelts travels on a dual carriageway outside a built-up area, with no lower limit or other special regime. It is not providing school or minors’ transport. What is its general maximum while overtaking?

Correct answer

100 kilometres per hour

100 km/h. Overtaking does not increase the limit: the applicable vehicle and road limit remains. With standing passengers or if the bus is not fitted with seatbelts, its outside-built-up-area maximum is 80 km/h, subject to lower limits. The school or minors’ transport regime reduces that vehicle type’s maximum for the road by 10 km/h; it does not apply merely because an ordinary service has a passenger under age.