When driving an 11-meter-long bus on a road outside built-up areas with one lane in each direction, what minimum safety distance must you keep from the vehicle ahead if you intend to overtake it?

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The General Traffic Regulations establish that, outside built-up areas and on roads with one lane per direction, vehicles of more than 3,500 kg maximum authorized mass (MAM) or more than 10 meters in length must keep a minimum separation of 50 meters from the vehicle ahead to make it easier for others to overtake them. However, the regulations themselves exempt from keeping those 50 meters in several cases: where overtaking is prohibited, in heavy traffic, if there is more than one lane in the same direction, or when the driver firmly intends to overtake. Since in this case an overtaking is intended, only the general safety distance is mandatory: the one that guarantees stopping the bus in the event of sudden braking without colliding with the vehicle ahead.

When driving an 11-meter-long bus on a road outside built-up areas with one lane in each direction, what minimum safety distance must you keep from the vehicle ahead if you intend to overtake it?

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