Hazard Detection For The Full Licence Test

This may help some of you to better define what is a hazard

Some of the comments below are from the testing officers Manual.

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While driving through each of the eight assessable tasks the applicant is required to verbally describe:

(HD) - the hazards they detect 
(HR) - the actions they would take in response to the hazards.

A simple example of this would be:

• on detecting oncoming traffic, the applicant would then say that the oncoming traffic is a hazard (HD)
  
• their response could be to say that they will steer slightly left to maintain a safe clearance (HR). 
  

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A hazard is anything moving or potentially moving that poses a clear and direct threat to the applicant in carrying out the driving manoeuvre and therefore requires a driving response from the applicant. In other words a hazard is something that the applicant could realistically have a collision with in carrying out the manoeuvre. The decision as to whether something is a hazard must be made in the context of the manoeuvre being completed.

Hazards do not include:

• static objects such as protruding hedges, road signs, parked vehicles without occupants
  
• road features such as intersections, merge lanes etc
  
• pedestrians walking away from the intended path of the applicants vehicle
  
• vehicles that have cleared the intersection before the applicant arrives there