Before you start driving a bus equipped with emergency exits, must you make sure that access to such exits are not obstructed?
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Correct answer
C. Yes.
Explanation
In the photo you can see the inside of a bus by a window: a curtain, a safety hammer and emergency exit markings on the glass. Before you start driving, you must make sure that access to the emergency exits is not obstructed - answer C.
The Regulation on the technical conditions of vehicles requires a bus longer than 6 m to have emergency exits, and access to them should not be obstructed in any way, and the Road Traffic Act requires a vehicle to be maintained so that using it does not endanger the safety of the people travelling in it. After an accident or in a fire, seconds count: a suitcase in the aisle or a blocked hammer can stop dozens of people from escaping. This obligation always applies (answer A is wrong), and the threshold of 35 seats (answer B) appears in the regulations only for setting the number of emergency exits and does not release you from the duty to ensure free access to them. So before setting off you check that the exits and hammers are in place and that nothing is blocking them.
Legal basis: § 18 para. 1 point 2 of the Regulation of the Minister of Infrastructure on the technical conditions of vehicles and the scope of their necessary equipment; Art. 66 para. 1 point 1 of the Road Traffic Act (Prawo o ruchu drogowym)