QUESTIONS WITH DETAILED VERIFIED ANSWERS (100%
CORRECT ANSWERS) /ALREADY GRADED A+
- Critical/honestself-awareness
- Understanding of your personal characteristics, attitudes and behaviour
- Taking action to keep identified risks to a minimum
- Awareness of your own limitations and those of the vehicle and the
road
The qualities of a safe, competent
- Awareness of the risks inherent in particular road and traffic
driver
situations
- Concentration and good observation
- Continuously matching the vehicle's direction and speed
to the changing conditions
- Skilful use of vehicle controls
- Driver error or reaction (a factor in 2/3 RTCs)
The most common causes of - Action based on poor judgement (a factor in 1/4 RTCs)
collisions - Being careless, reckless or in a hurry (a factor in 1/6 RTCs)
Groups most likely to be - Young drivers, especially young male drivers
involved in a collision - People who drive at work
- Human factors that affect your driving
The four levels of the driving - The purpose and context of your journey
task set out by the European - Traffic situations
Goals for Driver Education - Vehicle and vehicle control.
- Our attitude influences other drivers.
Reasons for emergency services
- We are role models and can influence the behaviour of other drivers
to demonstrate exemplary for the better.
driving - If we drive safely, others are more likely to behave the same way
- The knowledge and skills to drive safely
The core competencies for
- An understanding of factors that increase your risk of a collision
all driver education
- The ability to accurately assess your driving behaviour.
- Multi-tasking
- Alertness
The additional competencies - Attention distribution
for police drivers - Situational awareness
- Anticipation
, -Planning
Being able to carry out several complex driving tasks at the
Competency: Multi-tasking
same time and with equal accuracy and efficiency
Being vigilant and remaining focused so as to spot potential
Competency: Alertness
hazards early and leave nothing to chance
Competency: Attention distribution Splitting your attention across all aspects of a driving task
Your ability to "read the road": using all your senses to build
Competency: Situational awareness
up an accurate mental picture of the operational
environment
Using your observational skills and driving experience to
Competency: Anticipation
spot actual and potential hazards and predict how the
situation is likely to unfold
Competency: Planning Planning precisely and making rapid and accurate decisions throughout the
task
Competency: making judgements Judging situations accurately and taking safe and appropriate action
1. Recognise the resistance in ourselves to accepting responsibility
How to learn from driving
experience 2. Accept every near miss and collision as a learning opportunity
The stress associated with facing a difficult or demanding task
Anticipatory stress
(e.g. anxiety about what you will find on arrival at an
incident)