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By: Dominik Stallein
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Walking speed is required in all lanes: the bus has its hazard lights on - and everyone has to drive slowly, including oncoming traffic. © Sabine Hermsdorf-Hiss
There are regulations that many people forget after driving school: Several difficult places in the Wolfratshausen region make driving license tests tricky.
Wolfratshausen/Geretsried – Other drivers would probably be honked at if they braked there. Not Svea Patzak. This could be due to the large “driving school” sign stuck to the black Audi. It's probably not just because the student adheres exactly to the rules that apply at the cemetery crossing in Nantwein. It is a place where driving license tests often end. There are several of these in the northern district. Student driver Svea drives her off with our newspaper. Your driving instructor Hildegard Schulz is the head of the Sepp Kögl driving school - and knows the pitfalls of driving examiners.
Green arrow at the traffic light: Not automatically free travel
If you watch the intersection, you might think that the right-turn traffic light is permanently green. That's not true: At the green arrow at the intersection of Schießstättstrasse and Sauerlacher Strasse, drivers would have to stop as if at a stop sign. The 17-year-old driving student knows this. The Volvo driver in front of her probably doesn't, he just keeps driving. “A roll stop is not enough in the test,” says driving instructor Schulz. “For most people who drive this way regularly, the wait feels unusually long.” The car has to stop completely and for at least a second, otherwise the student fails. "Twenty-one. Twenty-two,” counts Schulz. Then Svea drives on.
Like a stop sign: The Green Arrow in Nantwein is often driven over quickly - but drivers actually have to stop before turning right. © Sabine Hermsdorf-Hiss
Bus with hazard lights - be careful: in the country and in the city
In summer, many motorcyclists, day trippers, driving schools and buses travel on the district road between Wolfratshausen and Egling. There can be unpleasant scenes between the latter two. Because: There is a bus stop at the Riedhof golf course. There is a banderole stuck to the stop board. That's why the bus driver has to turn on the hazard lights at the stop. And that means that student driver Svea would have to step on the brakes - and brake to walking speed. She's lucky on our tour: no bus, no signaling, no braking. “You only see the bus very late,” says the 17-year-old – “and you arrive at 100 km/h”. The golf course with the bus stop is “a nasty place,” admits Schulz.
There are several such stops with hazard warning lights in the northern district - and Svea notices one of them too late. At the Wasen in Wolfratshausen, driving instructor Schulz hits the brakes. The situation is tricky. Svea is driving out of town, there are three lanes to the left - and just behind that is a bus. You can hardly see the hazard lights because there are cars in between. We still have to slow down.
The exit from the town is inaccessible: anyone who looks into the distance will miss the entry ban. © Sabine Hermsdorf-Hiss
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Well camouflaged: traffic signs are often overlooked
If it comes up in the exam, it is on purpose. For example, in Münsing on Schwabbrucker Straße, but also in Gelting on Leitenstraße, there are “No entry allowed” signs. Nasty at Münsinger Stelle: A few meters behind the prohibition sign is a town exit sign. “You can miss or forget the front sign,” says Schulz. But you shouldn't. Otherwise the test drive will end suddenly and unpleasantly. Instead, examinees should ask where they should continue driving - this shows the examiners that they recognized the ban early on. Svea decides independently: she turns right - and does everything right.
Right before left doesn't just apply to those in the know
The commercial area in Münsing is not necessarily one of the district's traffic hotspots. Anyone who doesn't know it would be surprised that the many small exits are not exits, but full-fledged roads. In the 30 zone, right over left applies. “If you don't know that, you just drive into the intersection.” But driving examiners don't like it when examinees are not ready to brake in a right-before-left situation.
Rule chaos in Geretsried: Droopy traffic and stop confusion annoy the driving instructor
The newly designed T-Zone in Geretsried also poses a puzzle for experienced drivers. The teardrop-shaped roundabout between Intersport and Isar-Kaufhaus is a pretty special invention. What annoys driving instructor Schulz even more: Next to the underground car park exit at the level of the Italian restaurant “Il Soprano” there is a stop sign for drivers going straight on the street that actually has the right of way. “They then have to turn around and see if anyone is coming out of the garage.” She thinks the solution is “particularly clever.” Svea doesn't comment. She stops and looks and then drives on.
Ready for the test drive: Driving student Svea Patzak is learning to drive with Hildegard Schulz. © Sabine Hermsdorf-Hiss
Standing on the railroad crossing? Not even allowed at the traffic lights!
It happens all the time, especially at the traffic lights at the Tapsi intersection: drivers stand waiting on the train tracks. It's not dangerous, the freight train runs there very rarely and always announces itself very clearly, including a red light. Nevertheless, according to the road traffic regulations, it is forbidden to stop on the tracks. This is drilled into the students in driving school. During the test drive, Svea slowly rolls over the crossing and leans far forward in her seat to look left and right to make sure there is no train coming. “You have to do it that way,” says Schulz.
Falling in the driving license test
It is not advisable to stick to the speed limit during the driving test. Anyone who drives in the 30 zone, like Svea at Untermarkt, at a fairly standard 33 kilometers per hour, will quickly run into problems. At roundabouts, drivers should not only keep an eye on motorized traffic: when exiting the roundabout, they also have to pay attention to pedestrians - they have priority if they want to cross the street. The learner driver has to brake.