What you need to know
- Know the Highway Code figures
- Understand thinking plus braking distance
- Wet roads can greatly increase stopping distance
- Ice can increase it dramatically
- Tiredness and distraction increase thinking distance
Thinking distance, braking distance and how speed, weather, tyres and driver condition affect the total distance needed to stop.
Use these as explanations, then take the randomised topic test.
Answer: 12 metres
The Highway Code typical overall stopping distance at 20 mph is 12 metres.
Answer: 12 metres
The Highway Code typical overall stopping distance at 20 mph is 12 metres.
Answer: 12 metres
The Highway Code typical overall stopping distance at 20 mph is 12 metres.
Answer: 12 metres
The Highway Code typical overall stopping distance at 20 mph is 12 metres.
Answer: 12 metres
The Highway Code typical overall stopping distance at 20 mph is 12 metres.
Answer: 23 metres
The Highway Code typical overall stopping distance at 30 mph is 23 metres.
Thinking distance, braking distance and how speed, weather, tyres and driver condition affect the total distance needed to stop.
Use the explanations and practice questions together. The aim is to understand why an answer is correct so you can apply the rule in a different situation during the real test.
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