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