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    Hazard Perception Ahead
    Hazard Perception Ahead
    Hazard Perception Ahead
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    Hazard Perception Ahead

    By Andy Hall

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    Hazard Perception Ahead has been written and photographed by Andy Hall and edited by Russell Smith, (who are two experienced driving instructors with many years of teaching knowledge.) This gives drivers an appreciation of hazard perception, which will help them drive more safely and help them get through the UK Driving Hazard Perception Test. This book will also give a grounding for the UK driving theory question test. Hazard Perception Ahead is part of your theory test revision material.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherRussell Smith
    Release dateJun 1, 2012
    ISBN9781476277929
    Hazard Perception Ahead
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    Andy Hall

    In January 2000, after a career in the insurance industry, I switched to driver education, qualifying as an Approved Driving Instructor and registering with the Driving Standards Agency. I franchised myself with the Central Instructors' Association Driving School. Now I am working for myself. I enjoy my new work and find the high quality of teaching required challenging and very rewarding. I have written the Hazard Ahead book and also developed tutorials on roundabouts. In 2001 I qualified as a mentor with Rainer Kent Mentoring and, supported by Kent County Council, help young people coming out of care homes. For this voluntary work role I have attended a number of additional training courses on drug abuse, mental health and work involvement of Connections (a government organisation) for helping young people into work training experience and jobs. I am working to qualify for the B-Tech Award qualification. A member of the Royal Ashdown Forest Golf Club, I enjoy playing golf, tennis, walking and swimming. I hold both British and Canadian Private Pilot's Licences and enjoy classical and jazz music.

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      Hazard Perception Ahead - Andy Hall

      HAZARD PERCEPTION AHEAD

      Written and photographed by Andy Hall

      ~Copyright 2012 Andy Hall

      Andy Hall has asserted his rights under the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act, 1988 to be identified as the author of this work.

      All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying or otherwise without the prior permission of the publisher.

      Smashwords Edition, License Notes

      This ebook is licensed for your personal enjoyment only. This ebook may not be re-sold or given away to other people. If you would like to share this book with another person, please purchase an additional copy for each recipient. If you’re reading this book and did not purchase it, or it was not purchased for your use only, then please return to Smashwords.com and purchase your own copy. Thank you for respecting the hard work of this author.

      Published and edited for Andy Hall by Russell Smith on Smashwords

      http://www.facebook.com/Free2Publish

      ***

      Table of Contents

      Chapter 1 - HAZARD PERCEPTION

      Chapter 2 - INDICATORS

      Chapter 3 - USE OF MIRRORS

      Chapter 4 - JUNCTIONS MINOR TO MAJOR

      Chapter 5 - JUNCTIONS MAJOR TO MINOR

      Chapter 6 - PEDESTRIAN CROSSINGS

      Chapter 7 - THE YELLOW BOX

      Chapter 8 - THE HORN

      Chapter 9 - CROSS ROADS

      Chapter 10 - COUNTRY ROADS

      Chapter 11 - ONE WAY STREETS

      Chapter 12 - MEETING TRAFFIC

      Chapter 13 - ADEQUATE CLEARANCE

      Chapter 14 - ANTICIPATION

      Chapter 15 - THE BUS

      Chapter 16 - THE DUSTCART

      Chapter 17 - VULNERABLE ROAD USERS

      Chapter 18 - EMERGENCY VEHICLES

      Chapter 19 - CYCLISTS

      Chapter 20 - ROUNDABOUTS

      Chapter 21 - DUAL CARRIDGEWAYS

      Chapter 22 - MOTORWAYS

      Chapter 23 - SPEED AWARENESS

      Chapter 24 - ALL WEATHER DRIVING

      Chapter 25 - NIGHT DRIVING

      Chapter 26 - QUESTIONS

      AUTHOR PROFILE

      INTRODUCTION TO LEARNING TO UNDERSTAND THE ROADS

      Welcome to the Hazard Perception Ahead Book, which I hope you will find a useful add-on tool to your other driving aids.

      THERE'S A LOT TO LEARN

      HAZARD PERCEPTION

      Hazard Perception is now part of the Driving Theory Test.

      This book will help you to prepare for the test. You cannot take the Practical Test until you have passed both the theory questions and hazard perception parts of the Theory Test in one sitting.

      HOW THE HAZARD PERCEPTION TEST IS CONDUCTED

      The hazard perception test is made up of 14 video clips, each with one actual hazard, and one clip with two hazards. You will not be told which clip has two hazards, or when in the clips the hazards will be.

      DEFINITION OF A HAZARD

      To be able to react correctly to a hazard, you need to know the definition of a hazard, which is as follows:

      Anything which makes you brake or steer to avoid an accident is a hazard.

      On the hazard perception test, you will normally not score any points if you do not click until you are braking or steering as it is too late and you have not anticipated the situation.

      DEFINITION OF A POTENTIAL HAZARD

      A potential hazard is something you see going on around you which could develop into a hazard where you need to take avoiding action. Therefore forward planning is very important. If you are reacting to a situation, then you are already too late.

      On the hazard perception test, you will only score points for the potential hazard that develops into an actual hazard.

      Hazard Perception covers all aspects of driving. You should be able to observe and identify a potential risk in good time, scanning the road as far as you can see, not just in front of the car. A bend in the road or a bright sun streaming through the windscreen in between shadows are both hazards.

      This book aims to give you help to recognise potential hazard situations, pass the hazard perception part of the theory and will help with the theory questions test.

      In this book I have gathered many different hazard situations which you should take into account and know how to deal with. It's a matter of reading the road.

      HOW THE SCORING WORKS

      In order to relate the information in this book to the hazard perception test, each relevant hazard perception picture has been marked with an underlined bold number between 0 and 5 this number is the approximate score you would get if your first click was at this point and then developed into a hazard as defined above.

      The first picture with points marked is in the section on pedestrian crossings here

      If you click on a potential hazard and it does not develop into a hazard, you will not get any points, but you will not lose points either.

      You need to click on any potential hazard.

      You will score zero on a clip, if the program thinks you are cheating, for example, Click, Click, Click, Click, Click, Click, especially if there are no potential hazards developing.

      You will normally score

      5 points for clicking as soon as the potential hazard first appears.

      4 points if you click just after a potential hazard appeared.

      3 points if you click later after a potential hazard appeared

      2 points if you click even later after a potential hazard appeared

      1 points if you click just before you need to avoid the hazard

      0 points if you click as you are starting to brake or steer to avoid the hazard

      Even if you have clicked for 5 points, click another couple of times in-case your first click was too early.

      It`s not the Quantity of the Clicks, it`s the Quality!

      Below is an example of how the test works:

      As an example, you are driving along a straight road with houses on both sides.

      You recognise a potential hazard when a pedestrian comes out of their front door (Click- 5 points if it is the hazard),

      Pedestrian then walks to their gate, off your gas pedal (Click - 4 or 3 points),

      Pedestrian goes on to the pavement, cover your brake pedal(Click - 2 or 1 point),

      Now pedestrian steps into the road, brake to a stop (Click - 0 points, because it is too late to have reacted here).

      If the pedestrian walks along the pavement, not causing a problem, you will not score for this situation, so look for the next potential hazard.

      The first point that you click is the score you will get.

      Do not be worried about clicking too many times, as long as you are clicking for a reason.

      If you see a group of pedestrians, click once for the group, then

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