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Vulnerable Road Users — free theory test practice
This band reflects the Highway Code hierarchy of road users: the more damage your vehicle can do, the more responsibility you carry. Questions focus on the space and time you must give to people who are not protected by a metal shell.
Cyclists and motorcyclists appear most often, particularly at junctions, in filtering traffic, and when you are overtaking or turning left across their path.
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Vulnerable Road Users
Question 1 of 60
A moving vehicle ahead is showing a flashing amber beacon. What does this signal?
What the DVSA tests on vulnerable road users
- Passing distances for cyclists, horse riders and pedestrians in the road
- Blind spots and shoulder checks before turning or changing lane
- Pedestrian crossing types and who has priority at each
- Children near schools, ice-cream vans and residential streets
- Older, disabled and learner drivers, and how to give them room
Common mistakes in this topic
- Overtaking a cyclist just before turning left across them
- Passing a horse at speed or sounding the horn to warn the rider
- Failing to check the nearside blind spot before moving off
- Assuming a pedestrian waiting at a zebra crossing must give way to you
Instructor tip: On any question involving a cyclist at a junction, the safe answer almost always involves waiting behind them.