When driving a truck at night with the high beams on, if you detect pedestrians walking on the shoulder, are you obliged to switch to the low beam?

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The General Traffic Regulations (Article 102(1)) order the high-beam lighting to be replaced by low-beam lighting as soon as there is a chance of dazzling other users of the same road, especially drivers traveling in the opposite direction. A pedestrian walking on the shoulder is a road user: dazzling them can disorient them and make them stumble or involuntarily step onto the roadway, with the resulting risk of being run over. For this reason you must switch to the low beam. Whether you are driving on a straight or a curved section changes nothing: the duty to avoid dazzling does not depend on the layout of the road. And it is not true that the obligation only exists in relation to other motor vehicles, because it protects any road user, pedestrians included.

When driving a truck at night with the high beams on, if you detect pedestrians walking on the shoulder, are you obliged to switch to the low beam?

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