Traffic Laws
Traffic Laws
This domain tests the rules that control movement on Iraqi roads: right-hand driving, priority at junctions, signals, pedestrians and emergency vehicles. Iraq drives on the right, so slower traffic keeps right and overtaking is normally on the left. A motorcycle is a vehicle: it must obey the same signals, signs and lane rules as cars, not use footways or pedestrian zones as shortcuts.
Core rules
- Obey police officers and traffic lights; a police hand signal overrides a light.
- At an uncontrolled junction, slow down and give way to traffic approaching from your right unless a sign or marking says otherwise.
- Give way to pedestrians at marked crossings and to emergency vehicles using siren and lights.
- Never carry more passengers than the motorcycle is designed and registered for; rider and passenger need proper seating and helmets.
- Keep documents with the vehicle: licence, registration, insurance and inspection certificate.
Worked example
You approach a quiet four-way junction with no signs or lights. A car is coming from your right. The correct action is to reduce speed and yield. The reasoning: no sign changes the default right-hand priority, and a motorcycle is harder for the car driver to see. Trying to beat the car because you are smaller and quicker is a fail-level decision.
Traps that cost marks
- Treating a motorcycle as exempt from lane or priority rules.
- Following a police officer's wave but ignoring the red light after the wave ends.
- Forgetting that carrying an unhelmeted passenger is a separate offence from speeding.
- Assuming a car has seen you simply because you are in its mirror.