Revision question · Carrying passengers

Your bus has broken down on a motorway and passengers cannot safely leave the vehicle. What should you do?

Revision material from the imported DVSA bank includes source-checked Lanekind learning corrections. These corrections are not newly issued official examination questions, and practice does not reproduce a live test paper.

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Move passengers to the rear of the bus

Keep everyone inside with seat belts and hazards on; call 999 for police or use SOS

Move passengers to the middle of the bus

Tell passengers to climb out into the traffic lane

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Keep everyone inside with seat belts and hazards on; call 999 for police or use SOSThis was the right answer

If you cannot exit safely, stay inside, keep seat belts and hazards on, and immediately call 999 asking for police or use the vehicle’s SOS button. Follow emergency instructions; do not send people into traffic or routinely ask them to move seats.

Reviewed reading for this question

Rule 277Highway Code rule · The revised questions use the Code’s separate dark, can-exit and cannot-exit conditions instead of automatically moving everyone to the front.

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