Hazard Awareness Flashcards
You’ve been having drowsy-making medicine. Today you feel better but must take the medicine. You should only drive on what condition?
You have checked with your doctor.
What must you do by law as a driver if your eyesight has become too poor for the optician to help?
Tell the licensing authority.
When driving a car fitted with automatic transmission what would you use ‘kick down’ for?
Quick acceleration.
After passing your test, you suffer from ill health which affects your driving. What must you do?
Inform the licensing authority.
When it is permissible, how should you use your hazard warning lights?
Briefly.
A driver pulls out of a side road in front of you. You have to brake hard. What should you then do?
Ignore the error and stay calm.
You are following a slower-moving vehicle on a narrow country road. There is a junction just ahead on the right. What should you do?
Stay behind until you are past the junction.
You are on a dual carriageway. Ahead you see a vehicle with an amber flashing light. What could this be?
A disabled person’s vehicle.
You should NOT overtake: on a one-way street; travelling up a long hill; on a single carriageway or approaching a junction?
Approaching a junction.
What is the first warning of a train at a level crossing with barriers and lights?
A steady amber light.
