Rural Roads
Rural hazards
- bends & lanes
- Reading the road surface
- Passing places
- Soft verges/kerbs
- Differences between town and rural driving
- Dealing with bends
- Speed/position/other road users
- Dead ground
- Gradients and their effect
- Load/weight distribution &effect on performance
- The horn and it’s effective use
Overtaking and progress
- MPSL/MSM
- Passing slow moving traffic
- Where, when and why to make safe progress
- Increased potential for overtaking manoeuvres
- Safe following distance
Observation skills
- Middle & far distance
- Hazard perception
- Pedestrians with and without footpaths
- Animals
- Horses and riders
- When and how to pass
- Riders hand signals
- Slow moving horse boxes
- Need to approach slowly
- Slow moving vehicles
- Tractors
- Farm implements
- Mud on road
- Concealed entrance