Provisional - Zimbabwe Highway Code, Road Signs & VID Test Prep & lessons

Zimbabwe Speed Limits

Three figures cover almost every speed question on the provisional test. Learn them by vehicle class and by where you are, because that is exactly how the paper asks.

In town
60 km/h
Open road, heavy
80 km/h
Open road, light
120 km/h

The three limits

In an urban area everything is held to the same figure, light and heavy alike. On the open road the two classes part company.

  • 60 km/h in an urban area, for everything.
  • 80 km/h on the open road for a heavy motor vehicle.
  • 120 km/h on the open road for a light motor vehicle.

Restriction and derestriction signs

A restriction sign posts a lower limit and you may not exceed it.

A derestriction sign cancels the limit that was posted before it, and that is all it does. The general limit for your class still applies, so a light vehicle is back to 120 km/h and not to any speed it likes. That distinction is a question in its own right.

Following distance

Leave one car length for every 15 km/h you are doing. At 60 km/h that is four car lengths.

In rain, at night, or behind something you cannot see past, leave more.

Practise the speed limit questions

Three wrong answers is all the paper allows. The app keeps putting the speed and distance questions back in front of you until they stop costing you marks.