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Driving Lessons and Instructor Training in Kent England

Signals

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Signals warn and inform other road users, including pedestrians of your intended actions. You should always

  • give clear signals in plenty of time, having checked it is not misleading to signal at that time
  • use them to advise other road users before changing course or direction, stopping or moving off
  • cancel them after use
  • make sure your signals will not confuse others. If, for instance, you want to stop after a side road, do not signal until you are passing the road. If you signal earlier it may give the impression that you intend to turn into the road. Your brake lights will warn traffic behind you that you are slowing down
  • use an arm signal to emphasise or reinforce your signal if necessary. Remember that signalling does not give you priority.


You should also

  • watch out for signals given by other road users and proceed only when you are satisfied that it is safe
  • be aware that an indicator on another vehicle may not have been cancelled.


You MUST obey signals given by police officers, traffic officers, traffic wardens and signs used by school crossing patrols.
Laws RTRA sect 28, RTA 1988 sect 35, TMA 2004 sect 6, & FTWO art 3106
Police stopping procedures. If the police want to stop your vehicle they will, where possible, attract your attention by

  • flashing blue lights, headlights or sounding their siren or horn, usually from behind
  • directing you to pull over to the side by pointing and/or using the left indicator.

You MUST then pull over and stop as soon as it is safe to do so. Then switch off your engine.
Law RTA 1988 sect 163

Driving Lessons and Instructor Training in Kent England

Provisional licence and theory test

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Normally, for car drivers, the earliest date your provisional licence can become valid is your 17th birthday. … So, if you apply for your provisional licence before you are 17, you will still have to wait until your 17th birthday before you can book your theory test.

You can take your theory test once your provisional licence becomes valid. Normally, for car drivers, the earliest date yourprovisional licence can become valid is your 17th birthday. However you can apply for the licence up to two months before your 17th birthday.

Overview

You can apply for a provisional driving licence when you’re 15 years and 9 months old.

You can start driving a car when you’re 17.

You can drive a car when you are 16 if you get, or have applied for, the enhanced rate of the mobility component of Personal Independence Payment (PIP).