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You are driving in dense daytime fog with visibility reduced to 40 metres. You come to a halt at the rear of a stationary queue of traffic on a dual carriageway, and another vehicle stops safely directly behind you. What should you do regarding your vehicle lighting and braking controls?

  1. A
    Keep your rear fog lights illuminated and maintain firm pressure on the footbrake while fixating on the tail lights of the vehicle ahead.
  2. Switch off your rear fog lights and apply the parking brake to avoid dazzling following drivers and obscuring brake lights.Cevap
  3. C
    Leave rear fog lights on and activate hazard warning lights continuously to compensate for increased thinking and braking distance.
  4. D
    Extinguish all exterior lights and rely only on daytime running lights until the amber instrument cluster warning light goes out.

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Switch off your rear fog lights and apply the parking brake to prevent dazzling following drivers and obscuring brake lights.
According to the Highway Code, high-intensity rear fog lights must be switched off when you are no longer the last vehicle in a queue or when visibility improves, as they cause intense glare and can obscure brake lights. Furthermore, applying the handbrake (parking brake) and removing your foot from the brake pedal avoids blinding the driver waiting closely behind.

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1
Assess the visibility and surrounding traffic protection.
Recognise that a following vehicle has already arrived and stopped safely behind your vehicle, acting as a visual buffer.
High-intensity rear fog lights are designed to make your vehicle visible from a distance; once a vehicle is stopped behind you, their bright glare is no longer needed.
2
Adjust rear fog light controls in accordance with Highway Code Rule 236.
Turn off rear fog lights to prevent dazzling the driver directly behind and to avoid masking your brake lights.
Intense rear fog lights dazzle drivers at close range and can obscure the activation of brake lights if traffic moves again.
3
Engage the parking brake (handbrake) and release the footbrake.
The vehicle remains safely stationary without projecting continuous, bright brake lights into the eyes of following drivers.
Relying on the footbrake in a stationary queue causes continuous glare from high-level brake lights.

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Correct use of fog lights and braking controls in stationary queues under poor visibility
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