Emergency Stops
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Emergency Stops. Throughout your driving test your aim will be to slow down in good time and pull up gently, except in the emergency stop exercise, which will show your competence in taking immediate and effective action.
From 4th May 1999 the emergency stop will be conducted at random during one-in-three car tests to enable extra time to be spent in normal driving.
The examiner on the driving test will expect you to:-
- Stop the car promptly
- Keep the car under control without locking the wheels
- Stop the car in the shortest possible distance
- Stop the car without endangering other road users
With the car safely at a standstill, and the clutch and brake pedals still depressed, apply the handbrake and move the gear lever into neutral.
Move on again when told to do so by the Driving Examiner, not forgetting the Mirrors-signal- manoeuvre routine. Sometimes you may stop in the middle of the road. So don’t forget to look over your left shoulder as well. Something could be on the left of the road.
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