Frequent Questions and Answers

1. What is the minimum Tyre thread depth of your Tyres?
   Answer: 1.6mm

2. What would you do if you were dazzled by headlights coming towards you?
   Answer: Look to the left and if necessary pull in to recover.

3. What is a yellow box and what rules apply to one?
   Answer: It is a box of criss-cross yellow lines and you cannot stop on it unless turning.

4. Where should you not park?
   Answer: On a bend ,corner, brow of a hill, single yellow line during Business hours, double yellow lines, blocking an entrance, loading bay.

5. What does a broken white line along the centre of the road mean?
   Answer: Alert drivers to danger and must not be crossed unless safe to do so.

6. What does a continuous white line along the centre of the road signify?
   Answer: All traffic must keep to the left. Must not cross.

7. What does the white Zig-Zag line at a Zebra Crossing mean?
   Answer: No Overtaking No Parking

8. Who has priority at a junction of equal importance?
   Answer: Traffic to Right

9. When can you overtake on the left or on the inside?
   Answer: When traffic is moving more slowly in the lane to your right and when a driver in front is turning right. Also if you are turning left.

10. When/Where would you dip your headlights?
    Answer: When behind a car, meeting a car, in dense fog or snow, when driving in a lit area.

11. What does a "Clearway " mean?
    Answer: No Parking during specified times.

12. What is a filter light?
    Answer: Arrow light, generally green, you may proceed in direction of arrow.

13. What does a flashing amber light mean at a Pelican Crossing?
    Answer: Give way to pedestrians but proceed if safe.

14. You should park within what distance from kerb?
    Answer: 45 centimetres.

15. What road markings would accompany a " No Entry" sign?
    Answer: A solid line with a broken line behind it.

16. Who has priority at a junction of equal importance?
    Answer: Traffic already turning and traffic from the right