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Driving test notes
Alertness
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Getting a clear view
If you can't see behind you aksk someone to guide you, if your view is blocked by a parked card mov eforward carefully iun til you have a clear view
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Being seen by oteehrs
Switch on your lights wheen it starts to get dark, even if the street lights aren't on
Where you can't be seen, such as at a hump bridge, you may need to use your horn
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Staying Focused
Always plan your journey, know which route you need to take and have regular rest stops
don't drive con tinously for more than two hours, keep fresh air circulating, if you start to geel drowsy leave at the next exist, ind a safe place to stop and tak a brak
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Safety and Vechile
Looking after your car
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Tyre Condition- ueven wear can be caused by faults in braking system suspension or tracking if the front wheels unabalanced
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Lights
If you're dirving in poor visblity used dipped, if thick godg use fog lights
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Security
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Remove the car keys and lock your car, even if yoiu only leaving it for a short time
Lock any contents, especially valiuables, ouyt of sight, or take them wtih you if you can
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At night, park in well lit area
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Parking safely
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Near the brow of a hill, where limited view of the limited view ahed makes it difficult to see wheteher it's safe to pass the obstruction
At a dropped kerb, s this sos a place for wheelschair onad ,mobility scooters
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Meeting the standards
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Tyres
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Must be able to checked they're correctly fitted, inflated have tread deoth and are legal
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Safety Margins
Keep control of your car by using the correct prociedires, for eisntance when you're travelling on a long downhill strch of road control your spoeed by sleecting a lowe r gear, execissive braking on hill cans cause breaks overheat
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Stopping distances- with good tyres and brakes, on a dry road, in good conditions
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Weather condtions
Heavy Rain can cause aquaplanning, when tyres skate on water
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Driving through deep water, test breaksn may need to press lightly on brake pedal to dry em out
Hot and/or bright
Hot weather can be dangerous the road surface become soft, brihgbt sunlight can dazzle
Freezing
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When driving Keep Speed down, brake gently and in plenty of time be prepared to stop and clean your windscreen by hand if the wipers can't keep the windscreen clear
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Skidding
Skidding is when the tires lose grip on the road caused surface tyre conditions can increase the risk of skidding how drivers controls accleration
Reduce the risk of skidding in slippery conditions at low speed in the highest gearyou can use effectively
Break too hard and skid Take your goot off brake then press it again gently, steer in direction of skid
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ABS also designed to oprevent skidding, if you ahev to brake press footbreak quickly and firmly don't realease the break pedal until it stopped
May not work as well if there's surface water such as when there's been heeqavy rainfall, a loose road cesurface such as gravel
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Contraflow
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Choose a suitable lane in good time, look for signs adivising you to use a particular laneg if you want to take an exit that will be coming up soon , or if you ahevba wide vechile
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Atttitude
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Crossing
Pelican Crossing
If you're approaching a pelician crossing and the amber light is flashing: give way to predetrians don't move off until crossing is clear
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Puffin corssing
Puffin Crossing electronically controled ensuroing that red light shows until pedestrian has safely crossed the road. These Crossing don't have a flashign amber light; they have a steady amber light like normal traffic lights
Toucan crossing
Toucan crossing same as puffin crossing but allows cyclists,
Hazard Awareness
Hazard potentials
Statics- Parked cars
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Junctions
Visiblity reduced at hunctions in built up atreas, take extra care and pull forward slowly
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Moving, Pedestrians cycluist or drivers
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Motorcyclists
Look out for motorcyclists emerging from a junction,
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