Road users requiring extra care · Other road users
Learners and inexperienced drivers. They may not be so skilful at anticipating and responding to events. Be particularly patient with learner drivers and young drivers. Drivers who have recently passed their test may display a ‘new driver’ plate or sticker (see ‘Safety code for new drivers’).
In the Highway Code, MUST and MUST NOT identify legal requirements. Advice using should, should not, do or do not can still be used as evidence in court proceedings under the Traffic Acts to establish liability. The introduction explains this distinction.
The Code reads in order, and each of these names the rule it goes to rather than saying only ‘next’.
The rules the Code files beside this one, in its order.
The other groups in this part of the Code, and the rest of it.