On a road without priority signs, a car climbs and a lorry descends a narrow 10% gradient where they cannot pass each other. There are nearby passing places. Who has precedence?

Correct answer

The car, because it is travelling uphill, except when it can reach a passing place first.

On a narrow steep gradient, the uphill vehicle has precedence unless it can reach a designated passing place first. Here the car is climbing. The rule considers a gradient of at least 7% steep, not only one above 7%. If the gradient or proximity of a passing place is uncertain, the prescribed precedence order applies; do not automatically replace the rule with whichever vehicle would reverse farther.