Checking around you

What should you check for?

• What’s coming up ahead: look out for intersections and traffic lights, speed zone changes, and pedestrian or railway crossings
• What’s going on around your car: especially vehicles beside and behind you, or in your blind spots
• Potential hazards, such as places where pedestrians might cross from behind parked cars.

Things to practise for the test

• Scanning the road ahead of you – look at least 12 seconds driving time ahead
• Glancing ahead at the footpath to either side of the road you’re on
• Checking your rear view and side mirrors, especially before you indicate, slow down, turn or change lanes
• Checking over your shoulder; Do this before you pull out from the kerb, change lanes, merge, reverse, or before you turn (if there's a chance that another person could have moved into your blind spot.)