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Question 7516

If your low-beam headlights fail, may you drive outside a built-up area on an insufficiently lit road using your high beams?

  1. Yes, while avoiding blinding other road users.
  2. Yes, provided you have your hazard lights on.
  3. No.
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Correct answer: Yes, while avoiding blinding other road users.

Yes. If your low beams fail during your trip, you may continue with high beams outside a built-up area as long as you do not blind anyone. The breakdown does not allow you to keep them on when someone is approaching from the opposite direction or there is another vehicle ahead of you. Turning on your hazard lights does not change this rule. In the image, a car is approaching from the opposite direction, so you could not keep your high beams on as you meet it.

Real Decreto 1428/2003, de 21 de noviembre, por el que se aprueba el Reglamento General de Circulación · Real Decreto 1428/2003, de 21 de noviembre, por el que se aprueba el Reglamento General de Circulación · Real Decreto 1428/2003, de 21 de noviembre, por el que se aprueba el Reglamento General de Circulación