Government looks at steps to make new drivers safer

crossings

Types of pedestrian crossings When learning to drive a focus of a lesson can be based around pedestrian crossings. During your driving test, the examiner will be looking at how you deal with or react to pedestrian crossings. They want to make sure that you are planning ahead, showing awareness and responding to them them in the safest possible way. Pedestrian crossings get put into two main categories – uncontrolled and traffic light controlled. For all crossings: -In queuing traffic, you should keep the crossing clear. On approach to a crossing there will be white zigzag lines on both sides of the road to highlight there is a pedestrian crossing ahead – these also prevent people parking at any time and is a place you make no attempt to overtake. You should take extra care where the view of either side of the crossing is blocked by queuing traffic or incorrectly parked vehicles. Pedestrians may be crossing between stationary vehicles. Allow pedestrians plenty of time to cross and do n

Expectations

Here is a list of expectations you should be able to tick before taking your test. Smooth driving, Smooth gear changing, Early braking, Smooth braking, Good all round observation, Regular mirror checks, Keeping to the speed limit, Making progress, Avoiding unnecessary hesitation, Planning ahead, Control pulling away, Keeping up to the speed of the vehicles in front, Reacting to all hazards and situations, Good lane discipline, Not going above the speed limit, Responding to road markings, Reading and responding road signs accordingly, Reacting correctly to traffic lights, Reacting to vehicles in front,

Managing Anxiety And Nerves

This is a guide that 4front Driving School have put together to help you manage and potentially overcome your driving test nerves. It is very common to be nervous about your test, but you need to find a way to reduce the nerves so that they don't impact on the outcome of your test. This post highlights some of our previous tips and some new ones that you might want to consider using and maybe even develop or put in place with your instructor on the lead up to your test. So like we said driving test nerves are common and nerves as a whole do affect everybody to some degree, so we advise all our students to consider reading this post and see if some of the tips work for them. Nerves can come in different forms such as anxiety, panic, stress, or emotions, so we're going to address some tips and some strategies that you might be able to put to good use. And hopefully it will help you to calm some of those nerves. Can you describe your nerves? What are they about and how does it ma

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