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A lorry travels at 90 km/h on a motorway outside a built-up area. With no lower limit or other prohibition, and if the manoeuvre can be completed safely, may you overtake it on your motorcycle?

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Yes, provided that 120 kilometres per hour is not exceeded during the overtaking manoeuvre.

Yes, without exceeding 120 km/h. The motorcycle’s general limit on that road differs from the lorry’s. Overtaking does not authorise exceeding the applicable limit or travelling at 140 km/h. Check traffic, signal and keep the required lateral clearance. The old 20 km/h allowance for certain conventional-road overtakes was abolished on 21 March 2022; that allowance did not apply on motorways.

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  • Yes, as a speed of up to 140 kilometres per hour is permitted for overtaking.

  • Yes, provided that 120 kilometres per hour is not exceeded during the overtaking manoeuvre.

  • No, because the lorry is travelling at the maximum permitted speed.

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