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Question 8215

Due to an emergency, a passenger car is immobilized on the roadway. As a general rule, must its driver place the hazard warning device?

  1. The driver need only turn on the hazard lights and, where applicable, the position lights.
  2. No, except if the vehicle becomes immobilized on a road outside a built-up area.
  3. Yes, even if the driver has turned on the hazard lights, the position lights, or both.
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Correct answer: Yes, even if the driver has turned on the hazard lights, the position lights, or both.

Yes. If your passenger car is stopped on the roadway, you must place the V-16 even if the hazard lights, position lights, or both are already on. Those lights do not replace it, and the requirement applies both inside and outside built-up areas. In the image, the blue passenger car has its hazard lights and V-16 on.

Reglamento General de Circulación · Reglamento General de Vehículos · RD 159/2021. Servicios de auxilio en vías públicas