Zimbabwe road rules covering vulnerable road users, 4 rules. Ready to test yourself? Try Vulnerable Road Users practice questions.
The road users most at risk are the ones with nothing around them: pedestrians, cyclists, motorcyclists, and anyone leading or riding an animal. A motor vehicle is the most lethal thing on the road, so its driver carries a special responsibility towards the people who are not protected by one.
A cyclist or a motorcyclist is narrow, quiet and easily lost against a busy background. They are missed most often when coming up from behind, when emerging from a junction, on a traffic circle, when overtaking you, and when filtering between lanes of slow traffic. Look for them deliberately, because a glance that is only checking for cars will not find them.
Animals and animal drawn carts. Zimbabwean roads carry livestock, and a herd on the tar is a hazard to be treated as one. Pass slowly, give plenty of room and be ready to stop. Do not sound the horn, rev the engine or accelerate hard once you are past, because a startled animal turns into the road rather than away from it. If a herd has blocked the road, stop and switch the engine off until it has cleared. Watch for animals on unfenced roads, and keep your speed down on bends and narrow rural roads where the first you see of a beast is when you are level with it.
Emergency vehicles. A fire engine, an ambulance or a police vehicle sounding its warning device or operating its flashing beacon takes precedence over all other traffic. Move out of its course, stop, and remain stationary until it has passed. Choose where you stop: not on a bridge, not on a blind rise, not on a bend and not in a narrow section. Do not brake harshly on the approach to a junction or a traffic circle, because the driver behind you cannot see what you can see.
The VID questions set on these rules, each with the reason its answer is right.
