What should you do if the traffic in the left-hand lane is slowing?
- A Slow down, keeping a safe separation distance
- B Accelerate past the vehicles in the left-hand lane
- C Pull up on the left-hand verge
- D Move across and continue in the right-hand lane
Why this is the answer
Allow the traffic to merge into the left-hand lane. Leave enough room so that you can maintain a safe separation distance, even if vehicles pull in ahead of you.
Why the other answers don't fit
- B
- Accelerate past the vehicles in the left-hand lane — Speeding past traffic that is merging is how a merge fails.
- C
- Pull up on the left-hand verge — There is no reason to stop, and the verge is not a lane.
- D
- Move across and continue in the right-hand lane — Changing lane to avoid the merge leaves the joining traffic nowhere to go.
Where this comes from
- Driving: the essential skills — section 10
- The Highway Code — rule 289
Rule numbers link to The Highway Code on gov.uk.
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