Driving Safely Through Traffic

Session 8 Objectives:

During this session, your ADI should make sure that you can drive with due care and attention where there is a significant volume of other traffic.

Minimum Session Coverage:

• Defensive driving
• Recognising risks to the safety of others
• Co-operating with other road users

During the session, you should drive in traffic in a variety of busy road conditions so that you have significant interaction with other road users.

Expected Outcomes:

At the end of the eighth session, you should be able to show that you can:

• Act appropriately and decisively while driving in traffic
• Describe actual and potential risks to other road users and manage them effectively
• Demonstrate how to use defensive driving techniques, which do not cause hesitation or impede reasonable progress
• Demonstrate a good level of co-operation with other road users

Preparing for Sessions 9-12:

Your next session could be any one of Sessions 9, 10, 11 or 12 as these can be taken in any order. To achieve the expected outcomes from your next session, you should have completed Session 1 to Session 8. Before you do your next session, you should ask your ADI for advice on the relevant study material, practice, and/or driving sessions.

To feel confident about meeting the learning objectives, you should also have:

• Read the expected outcomes of the next session (as agreed with your ADI)
• Done enough practice with your ADI, Sponsor, or both
• Done any relevant study

Specifically, you should have practised for at least three hours, driving with due care and attention, in situations where there is a significant volume of other traffic. You should also have read the sections in the Rules of the Road that deal with driving safely through traffic. You should have acted on any feedback your ADI gave you at the end of your last EDT session.