Road Safety and Highway Code
This domain tests whether you can apply the rules of the road to real situations on Cypriot roads: left-hand traffic, busy junctions in Nicosia and Limassol, fast motorways, and narrow mountain routes in the Troodos. Questions are usually short scenarios asking what you must, may or must not do.
The rules that decide most marks
- Cyprus drives on the left; you overtake on the right of the vehicle ahead, and only when the road is clear and the markings allow it.
- At a junction with no signs and no signals, you must give way to traffic approaching from your right.
- A STOP sign means a complete stop at the line, then give way. A GIVE WAY sign (inverted triangle) means yield; stop only if traffic requires it.
- General limits: 50 km/h in built-up areas, 80 km/h on rural roads, 100 km/h on motorways. They are maxima for good conditions, not targets.
- Keep a two-second gap in dry weather; double it in rain and add more on gravel, wet leaves or steep descents.
- Seat belts for all occupants; children need an approved restraint until they can use an adult belt safely.
- Alcohol limit for full licence holders is about 0.5 g/L of blood; novice and professional drivers have a lower limit (around 0.2 g/L). The safest answer is always zero.
- Hand-held phone use is prohibited; hands-free use is only acceptable while it does not distract you.
- Zebra crossings: pedestrians on the crossing have priority - approach ready to stop.
- Roundabouts: give way at the entry line to traffic already circulating, unless signs or markings say otherwise.
Worked example
You reach an unsigned crossroads in a 50 km/h zone at the same moment as a car approaching from a road on your right. You arrived first, so you assume you go. That is the classic trap: at an unsigned junction the priority belongs to the driver on your right, so you must give way even if you stopped first. If another driver waves you through, that is courtesy, not a legal right of way - move only when you have checked the road is genuinely clear.
Traps that cost marks
- Overtaking on the left, which is the wrong side in Cyprus.
- Rolling through a STOP sign instead of stopping at the line.
- Assuming the wider or busier road automatically has priority at an unmarked junction.
- Treating the speed limit as the safe speed in rain, fog or on mountain bends.
- Forgetting that rear seat passengers must also wear belts.