What behavior is required of a tram driver driving through the rail switches and frogs?
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Correct answer
B. To reduce the speed.
Explanation
This question is about how the tram driver should behave when driving a tram over points and crossings (frogs). Such a passage requires reducing speed - the answer is B.
At points and crossings, the track has gaps and moving parts, and the wheel passes from one rail to another. At high speed, the impacts and the risk of derailment increase, and the track surface and the tram itself wear out faster. That is why the tram driver goes slowly through such places. Increasing speed (answer A) is dangerous, and driving without changing speed (answer C) ignores the danger. The Road Traffic Act requires you to adjust speed to the condition of the road and to the conditions in which traffic is moving.
Legal basis: Art. 19 para. 1 of the Road Traffic Act (Prawo o ruchu drogowym)