Traffic information

Traffic information
On the web page of the Danish Road Directorate, you can find all relevant information about traffic when planning your holiday or when the holiday is coming up. Here, you can find current information about the traffic right now. Furthermore, there is information about all buses, planes and ferry connections in Denmark.

The web page of the Danish Road Directorate: www.trafikken.dk

Traffic regulations in Denmark
The section below describes some of the most important traffic regulations in Denmark.

A valid, national driver’s license (with latin letters) or an international driver’s license is accepted in Denmark. Furthermore, it should be clear that the driver’s license is valid for the type of vehicle used.

It is compulsory to have the lights on (dipped headlights, driving lights or fog lights) during the day. It is not permitted to speak on a hand-held mobile phone and drive at the same time in Denmark.

The content of alcohol in your blood may not be above the permitted limit of 0.05 per cent.

Speed limits
There are four basic speed limits for passenger cars in Denmark:

• 50 km/hour in urban areas (white sign with a town silhouette)
• 80 km/hour on country roads outside urban areas
• 110 km/hour or 130 km/hour on motorways. Signs show the permitted speed on the specific stretches.
• 90 km/hour on expressways

In Denmark, traffic keeps to the right, which means that you always have to pass on the left side.

Parking
As a main rule, parking and stopping is permitted at the right side of the road, but is not permitted on main roads and motorways. Furthermore, parking is not permitted in the following places, among others:

- on unbroken center lines and where the distance from the marking to the car is less than 3 metres
- less than 5 metres from a pedestrian crossing or at a the end of a bicycle path and 10 metres from a crossroads
- on bicycle paths and in pedestrian crossings
- at bus stops where the curb is painted yellow, or, if this is not the case, within a distance of 12 metres from a bus stop sign.

You usually have to pay a parking fee on parking lots and in carparks.

Road assistance
If you are having problems with the car and cannot drive to a repair shop yourself, Falck offers road assistance 24 hours a day and all over the country. Furthermore, there are emergency phones on all motorways.

Emergency centre
FDM can give technical and legal help to foreign drivers who are members of national automobile organisations connected to AIT:

Forenede Danske Motorejere (FDM), Firskovvej 32, P.O Box 500, DK-2800 Kgs. Lyngby. Tel.: +45 45 27 07 07, www. Fdm.dk, opening hours: Monday-Friday from 9 AM to 5 PM. FDM helps members of foreign automobile organisations, if you contact FDM’s emergency centre on tel.: +45 45 88 00 25.

FDM’s sister organisation ADAC has an office in Denmark which can help German-speaking tourists from Germany and Austria in distress. The tourists will mainly get help in connection with technical problems with the car or accidents. Furthermore, they also handle problems caused by illness or the like. ADAC’s emergency central is mainly for members of ADAC and ØAMTC, but in case of emergencies, they can also help other German-speaking tourists.

The address is:
ADAC Auslandsnotruf
c/o Falck Euro Service
Boulevarden 66
DK-7100 Vejle

Tel.: +45 79 42 42 85