Answers: How up to speed is your knowledge of the road

How good is your knowledge of the rules of the road

Here are the answers to our "How up to speed is your knowledge of the road?" quiz.

  • 1 (A) Allow at least a two-second gap between you and the vehicle in front on roads carrying faster-moving traffic and in tunnels where visibility is reduced.

  • 2 (B) You should allow 36 metres (118 feet), 12m thinking distance and 24m braking distance, this is the equivalent of nine car lengths.

  • 3 (B) You must not use a hand-held mobile phone, or similar device, when driving or when supervising a learner driver, except to call 999 or 112 in a genuine emergency when it is unsafe or impractical to stop.

  • 4 (C) You CAN overtake on the left if the vehicle in front is signalling to turn right, and there is room to do so.

  • 5 (A) You MUST NOT use the right hand lane, if a single carriageway has three lanes and the road markings or signs do not give priority to traffic in either direction.

Source: The Highway Code and Direct.Gov