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Roadcraft Questions And Answers WithVerified Solutions Already Passed!!!
Latest Updated 2024
What makes a good driver? - ANSWER✔✔ •Critical and honest self-awareness
•Taking action to keep identified risks to a minimum
•Awareness of your own limitations and those of the vehicle and the road
•Awareness of the risks inherent in particular road and traffic situations
•Concentration and good observations
•Continuously matching the vehicle's direction and speed to the changing
conditions
•Skilful use of vehicle controls
Competences for police drivers - ANSWER✔✔ - the knowledge and skills to drive
safely
- an understanding of factors that increase your risk of a collision
- the ability to accurately assess your driving behaviour
Task specific competencies - ANSWER✔✔ - multi-tasking
- alertness
- attention distribution
- situational awareness
- anticipation
- planning
- making judgements
, Situational awareness - ANSWER✔✔ Situational awareness is essential for police
and other emergency service drivers.
This involves gathering, interpreting and using any relevant information to make
sense of what is going on around you and what is likely to happen next, so that
you can make intelligent decisions and stay in control
Common causes of collisions - ANSWER✔✔ Driver error or reactions - failure to
look properly, failure to judge the other persons path or speed or loss of control
Actions based on poor judgement - travelling too fast for the conditions,
exceeding the speed limit or following too close.
Being careless, reckless or in a hurry
Most likely to be involved in a collision - ANSWER✔✔ Young drivers, especially
young male drivers, are at a high risk of crashing than older drivers
1 in 6 drivers are between 17-24 yet are involved in 1/4 crashes on British roads.
Young drivers are more likely to be involved in a crash as a result of excessive
speed, loss of control of the vehicle or sudden breaking.
People who drive at work are more likely to be involved in a crash than those who
don't.
Between a quarter and a third of all serious collisions involved someone who was
working at the time.
Drivers at work between the age of 25-35 are at a higher risk of a collision than
other age groups.
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