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BDifficulty 2/5

While you are being overtaken, danger arises and reducing your speed helps the manoeuvre finish without increasing danger. Must you reduce it?

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Yes, under the stated conditions.

Yes. Article 86 requires slowing when danger arises. If the overtaking driver clearly aborts and brakes, you need not slow if doing so would endanger traffic, but must help them return to the lane. Accelerating or obstructing overtaking is prohibited; there is no general duty to maintain precisely the same speed.

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  • Yes, under the stated conditions.

  • No, accelerate to prevent overtaking.

  • No, you must never slow while being overtaken.

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