Test 3

Answer: Registration book, insurance and a vehicle licence.

A vehicle on a public road must be registered, insured and licensed, so it needs the registration book, third party insurance and a current vehicle licence. A certificate of fitness is only required for classes such as public service and goods vehicles, not for every car.

Answer: Green, Amber, Red.

The cycle runs green, then amber, then red, and from red it goes straight back to green. Amber follows green as the warning that you must pull up for the red that is coming.

Answer: Slow down and prepare to stop.

Pedestrians on the crossing have the right of way, so you come up to it at a speed that lets you stop. Hooting does not give you the right to keep going, and you may not overtake another vehicle on the approach to a crossing.

Answer: Single file.

Riding two or three abreast takes up the room overtaking traffic needs, and the Code says single file is much safer. Ride one behind the other and vehicles can pass you without leaving the lane. Cyclists are entitled to use the road, so riding right off it is not asked of them.

Answer: Safety chains fitted to the trailers.

Every independent trailer must be coupled with safety chains as well as the tow hitch. If the coupling lets go, the chains hold the trailer to the towing vehicle instead of letting it run loose into other traffic.

Answer: I slow down and keep behind until its safe to overtake

A combine harvester is wide and slow and it blocks your view of the road ahead. Stay behind it where you can see past, and only pull out when you can see far enough to be certain of getting back in.

Answer: Eighteen years.

You must be eighteen to drive a heavy vehicle. Sixteen only takes you as far as learning on a light motor vehicle, and no heavy class is issued below eighteen. The new system calls the heavy classes the C codes, and eighteen still stands.

Answer: Car A

Nothing controls this crossroads, so each driver gives way to the right. Car C, the green car coming from the east and going straight on, has nothing on its right and clears first. Car A, the blue car turning right out of the west arm, follows, and Car B, going straight up from the south, is last.

Answer: Car C

The give way sign faces Car B, so the orange car from the south waits. Car A, the blue car from the west, is turning right across the path of Car C. Car C, the green car coming from the east and going straight through, has nobody to give way to, so it moves first.

Answer: Car B

Car B, the green car from the east, is turning right into the road going north, and a driver turning right gives way to oncoming traffic. Blue Car A is coming straight at it from the west, so Car B stops and waits for A to pass.

Answer: Stop or give way sign ahead.

The empty red triangle warns you about whatever is shown on the yellow plate below it, and that black cross is the symbol carried on the stop and give way signs. A control sign is coming, so be ready to pull up.

Answer: Slow down and proceed if there is no crossing traffic.

This is the give way sign, a yellow triangle inside a red circle. It does not order a full stop. Slow down, look both ways, and carry on without stopping if nothing is crossing or close enough to be a danger.

Answer: A hump in the road ahead.

The red triangle warns of a hazard and the yellow plate under it carries the raised black hump. The road ahead lifts into a hump, so lose your speed before you reach it rather than on top of it.

Answer: Speed limit on this road is 100 km/h

The red circle around 100 sets the limit on this road at 100 km/h. The white plate under it only states the general limit of 60 km/h that applies where nothing is posted, and it does not cut the 100 down.

Answer: A regulatory sign

The red circle with the black cross and the word STOP is the stop sign, and it orders you to do something. Signs that give an order are regulatory. Danger warning signs are triangles.

Answer: An informative sign

The white round sign with the black diagonal bar tells you that the speed restriction you were driving under has ended. It carries information about the road rather than warning of a hazard, and it stands on a post, so it is not a carriageway marking.

Answer: The red reflective triangle.

A vehicle that has broken down is marked with the red reflective triangle, stood on the road behind it so that drivers coming up see it from a distance. Indicators fail with the electrics and are not the warning the law asks for.

Answer: I should slow down and exercise caution

An abnormal load is wide, long or slow, and the escort is there to warn traffic. Slow down, keep well to the left and be ready to stop or pull off the road so that it can get past. Hooting and flashing lights will not make room for it.

Answer: A crash helmet

A rider must wear a crash helmet, properly fastened. It is the one item on the list that protects the head, which is what gets hurt when a rider comes off.

Answer: Yield to pedestrians to go through

Pedestrians crossing the road you are turning into have the right of way, so you wait for them to clear even though your light is green. Traffic from the right is being held by the robot, so it is not what you give way to here.

Answer: Slow down and look slightly to the left.

Do not look into the lights, because you lose your night vision and cannot see the road. Slow down and look slightly to the left, using the kerb or the edge of the road to hold your line until the vehicle has gone past.

Answer: Car B

Car B is the orange car coming up the side road from the bottom left and crossing the road that A and C are on. Car C, the green car travelling west, is on Car B's right, so Car B stops and lets the through road clear.

Answer: Car B

The give way sign faces Car B, the orange car coming down the road from the top right. It has to let Car A, the blue car on the arm with no sign, take the junction first, so Car B goes last.

Answer: Traffic already in the intersection regardless of which side it is coming from.

A vehicle already in the intersection has taken it, and you let it finish crossing whichever side it came from. Give way to the right decides who goes first between vehicles arriving together, not who is already inside.

Answer: Sixteen years old.

Sixteen is the age at which you may apply for a provisional licence and start learning on a light motor vehicle. Eighteen is the age for the heavy classes, not for learning to drive. The new system keeps sixteen as the youngest age for any code.