Driving - Alertness

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Why is alertness important?

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Is important to maintaining safety while driving and avoiding situations that may be dangerous

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What things must you consider when thinking about alertness?

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  • Other drivers/vehicles

  • Pedestrians

  • Road signs and markings

  • The weather

  • The area you’re in

  • The state you’re in

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Why is alertness important?

Is important to maintaining safety while driving and avoiding situations that may be dangerous

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What things must you consider when thinking about alertness?

  • Other drivers/vehicles

  • Pedestrians

  • Road signs and markings

  • The weather

  • The area you’re in

  • The state you’re in

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What should you do before you start driving?

  • Set and check your mirrors

  • Look around

  • Check blind spots

  • Signal in places you need too

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What are blind spots?

Areas that the driver can’t see

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What should you do if you can’t see when you’re reversing?

Get someone else to check them for you or get out and check them where appropriate

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What should you do when you can’t fully see when coming coming out of a junction?

Move forward slowly till you can see

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What should you consider when trying to overtake a vehicle?

  • Oncoming traffic

  • The time you have to overtake

  • The space you have to overtake ( if the road gets narrower

  • Whether you’re near a junction where other drivers could come unexpectedly when you’re trying to overtake

  • Bends/dips in the road that could make it so you can’t see oncoming traffic when you’re trying to overtake the car/vehicle

  • Do not overtake signs

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Ensuring other drivers awareness

  • How can you make sure ..?.. can see you?

    • (a) Other road users in the dark

    • (b) Drivers of bigger vehicles

    • (c) Drivers over a hump

  • (a) Put your lights on as soon as it starts to turns dark

  • (b) Stay a distance away from it, you should be able to see its mirrors or they can’t see you

  • (c) You might need to use your horn to alert them that you’re there

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What can help create anticipation to dangers on the road?

  • Road signs

  • Traffic lights that have been green for a long time (about to turn yellow/red and being prepared to slow down)

  • Other road users and watching their actions

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What should you always be ready to do?

To stop - things happen on the road that you can’t be prepared for

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How should you support these vulnerable users?

  • (a) Cyclists

  • (b) Pedestrians

  • (c) Motorcyclists

  • (d) People on a horse

  • (a) Cyclists (stay 1.5m away and overtake at 30mph ideally with more space when coming from higher speeds/ be cautious of young drivers)

  • (b) Pedestrians (older ones may take a while)

  • (c) Motorcyclists (be aware of them as they may manoeuvre easier and be difficult to see)

  • (d) Staying 2 metres away and not approaching the horse and the person slow (10mph or lower) because they’re prone to startling

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What can distract you while driving?

  • Music

  • Phone calls (hands free or not)

  • Your passengers

  • Conversations or arguments

  • Things happening on the road like accidents

  • Navigation systems

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What should you do to avoid tiredness when driving?

Take regular rest breaks

Don’t drive continuously longer than 2 hours

Keep fresh air circulating round the car

Get off at a safe exit and at legal stops when you feel tired

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Why should you plan your journeys?

Be more alert

Know which route to take

Ensure you have regular stops

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Where can’t you stop?

Emergency stops or the hard shoulder (emergency lanes on the left side of a motorway indicating by a solid white line that separates it from other lanes) of a motorway unless its an emergency

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Should you use your phone while driving?

Ideally no not even on hands free

you should turn it off or turn off the wifi and reconnect when you aren’t driving

so you can’t make calls or texts or listen to voicemails

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Should you reprogram your satnav when driving?

No, stop in a safe place and reprogram it then

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What does the National Standard for Driving say about?

(a) Deciding if you’re fit to drive

(b) Passengers

(c) Your surroundings

(d) Your speed

(a) Don’t drive if too ill, too emotional, too tired, under the influence

(b) Manage them so that they don’t distract you and stop you driving safely

(c) Be aware of them at all times

(d) Drive at a reasonable speed so that you can stop in a clear and reasonable space ahead

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What does the National Standard for Driving say about?

What you should know to drive?

  • Poor posture and poor seating positions affecting your driving and tiredness

  • How to deal with distracting passengers

  • Cars that have large pillars that can obstruct your view

  • How to be aware of the road and be aware of unprecedented things

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What is a dual carriageway and what should you know about it for alertness?*

A road that has an area of land that splits opposing lanes of traffic to separate carriageways

and you should always check that the central reservation is wide enough to stop in when turning into a dual carriageway if you have to wait before joining traffic.

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