keybarrel
Home_small0202
The-tests03
Highway-code-small03
lesson-help-small03
training-aids-small03
forum-small03

Highway Code index

Accidents | 255 | 256 | 257 | 258 | 259 | 260 | 261 | Annex 7 |
  dangerous goods | 258 | 259 |
  First aid | 257 | Annex 7 |
  level crossing | 272 |
  motorway | 257 |
Advanced stop lines | 55 | 154 |
Airbags | 78 |
Alcohol | 53 | 83 | Annex 5 |
Animals | 34 | 35 | 36 | 37 | 38 | 39 | 40 | 41 | 42 | 43 | 44 | 190 | 260 |
  horses | 34 | 35 | 36 | 37 | 38 | 39 | 40 | 41 | 139 | 163 | 180 | 190 | 191 | 227 |
  level crossings | 267 |
  motorways | 227 | 249 |
Arm signals | 38 | 39 | 41 | 52 | 59 | 85 | P71 |
Attitude | 125 |
Avoiding | 206 |

Battery | Annex 6 |
Bends | 2 | 104 | 124 | 136 | 142 | 206 | 217 |
Blind spots | 135 | 137 | 178 | 241 |
Box junctions | 150 |
Brake warning lights | 85 | 210 | P71 |
Braking/brakes | 97 | 98 | 99 | 100 | 101 | 206 | 212 | Annex 1 |
  ABS braking | 100 |
  condition | Annex 6 |
Breakdowns | 248 |
  level crossings | 272 |
  motorways | 249 | 250 | 251 | 252 |
Bus lanes | 120 | 215 |
  crossing | 12 | 159 |
  cyclists | 56 |
  one-way streets | 11 | 121 |
  overtaking | 141 |
  parking | 215 |
  turning | 159 |
Bus stops | 217 |
  give way | 198 |
  overtaking | 143 |
  pedestrians | 182 | 198 | 217 |
  school | 185 |
Buses | 198 | 239 |
  board/alight | 30 |
  overtaking | 56 | 143 |
  school | 185 |

Car phones see Mobile phones
Caravans | 74 | 136 | 224 | 239 |
Central islands | 7 | 20 | 26 | 28 | 173 | 217 |
Changing lane | 112 |
Chicanes | 131 |
Child locks | 78 |
Child restraints | 76 |
Children
  cars | 76 | 78 | P92 |
  Green Cross Code | 7 | 28 |
  horses | 191 |
  on motorways | 249 |
  parking | 214 |
  pedestrian crossings | 27 |
  pedestrians | 7 | 178 | 180 | 181 | 182 | 183 | 184 | 185 | 186 | 277 |
  young | 4 |
Clearways | 215 |
Climbing/crawler lane | 118 |
Clothing
  cyclists | 45 |
  drivers | 73 | 203 |
  horse riders | 35 |
  motorcyclists | 67 | 69 | 70 |
  pedestrians | 3 | 5 | 17 | 44 |
Coasting | 102 |
Concentration | 126 | 127 | 128 |
Consideration | 122 | 125 |
Conspicuity
  cyclists | 45 | 46 |
  horse riders | 35 | 36 |
  motorcyclists | 69 | 70 |
  pedestrians | 3 | 5 | 17 | 44 |
Contraflow systems | 264 |
Controlled crossings | 7 | 21-27 | 64-66 | 172-175 |
Controlled parking zones | 219 |
Controls | 73 |
Country roads | 132 |
Crossing the road | 7-29 |
  cyclists | 64-6 |
Crossings see Pedestrian crossings
Crossroads (unmarked) | 124 |
Crosswinds | 207 |
Cycle lanes and tracks
  cyclists | 47-49 | 56 |
  dogs | 42 |
  drivers | 119 |
  horse riders | 40 |
  parking | 119 | 215 |
  pedestrians | 11-13 | 48 | 51 |
  turning | 159 |
Cycle maintenance/choice | Annex 1 |
Cycle-only crossing | 66 |
Cyclists and cycling | 45-66 | 187-9 | 227 |
  junctions | 57-9 | 146 | 153-4 | 156 | 158-9 | 187 |
  overtaking/clearance | 56 | 108 | 136 | 139 | 188 | 207 |
  pedestrians | 13 | 48 | 51 |
  rear observation | 52 | 187 |
  roundabouts | 61-3 | 163 |
  routes | 47-9 | 56 |
  traffic lights | 50 | 55 | 64-6 | 153-4 |
  trams | 278 |
  turning | 59 | 188 |

D plates | Annex 1 | Annex 2 | Annex 3 |
Dangerous goods | 257-8 |
Dazzle | 94-5 |
Demisters | 204 | 210 | P89 |
Diagonal stripes/chevrons | 109 | P78 |
Direction indicators see Signals
Disabled | 180 | 183 |
  cyclists | 48 |
  drivers on motorway | 227 | 252 |
  pedestrian crossings | 23 |
  vehicles for | 195 | 214 | 216 | 224 |
Documents | 260-61 | Annex 3 |
Dogs (including guide dogs) | 42-3 | 183 |
Double white lines | 107-8 | 141 | 215 | P78 |
Drinking and driving | 83 | Annex 5 |
Driving, general advice | 122-134 |
Driving licence | Annex 1 | Annex 2 | Annex 3 |
Drugs/medicine | 53 | 84 |
Dual carriageways
  crossing/turning | 116 | 149 |
  cyclists | 60 |
  three lane | 117 |
  two lane | 116 |
Dull weather | 95 |

Elderly drivers | 192 |
Elderly pedestrians | 48 | 180 | 183 |
Electric vehicles | 199 |
Emergency telephones | 249 | 257 |
Emergency vehicles | 29 | 194 | 255 |
Exhaust systems | P89 |
Eyesight/vision | 81-2 |

Fatigue | 80 | 212 | 236 |
Filter lights | 153 |
Fire | Annex 6 |
First aid | 257 | Annex 7 |
Fitness to drive | 79-80 |
Flashing signals
  emergency | 29 | 194 | 255 |
  headlights | 90-1 |
  level crossings | 266 |
  motorways | 231-2 | 244 |
  police | 29 | 89 | 194 | 255 |
  school | 184 |
  slow moving vehicles | 195 | 200 |
  tramways | 31 |
Fluorescent /reflective clothing
  horse riders | 35 -36 |
  motorcyclists/cyclists | 45 | 69 | 70 |
  pedestrians | 3 | 5 | 17 | 44 |
Fog | 104 | 209-11 |
  lights | 94 | 201 | 211 |
  motorways | 210 | 229 | 234 |
  parking | 225 |
Footpaths
  cyclists | 13 | 48 | 54 |
  drivers | 123 |
  horses | 40 |
  pedestrians | 1 - 4 | 13 |
Footway see Pavement

Give way junctions | 148 | 159 | 165 - 166 |
  motorways | 233 |
Green Cross Code | 7 | 28 |

Hard shoulder see Motorways
Hatch markings | 109 | 150 | Road Markings |
Hazard warning lights | 96 | 248 | 251 | 252 | 257
Hazard warning plates | 258 |
Head restraints | 73 | Annex 6 |
Headlamps and headlights | 93-5 | 201 | 210 | 214 |
  motorcycle | 69 |
Headlight flashing | 90-1 |
Helmets
  accidents | 257 | Annex 7 |
  cyclists | 45 |
  horse riders | 34 |
  motorcyclists | 67 | 69 | 257 | Annex 7 |
Hills
  control | 136 |
  parking | 217 | 226 |
Horn | 92 | 190 |
Horse riders | 34-41 | 139 | 163 | 190-1 | 227 |
Hot weather | 212 |

Ice cream vans | 182 |
Icy weather | 104 | 171 | 189 | 203-6 | 234 |
In-car technology | 127-8 |
Inexperienced drivers | 180 | 193 |
Insurance | 261 | Annex 3 |
Islands | 7 | 20 | 26 | 28 | 173 | 217 |

Junctions see Road junctions

L plates | Annex 2 |
Lamps and lights see also Headlamps and head-lights
  conditions/maintenance | 93-5 | 204 | Annex 2 | Annex 6 |
  cyclists | 46 |
  horses | 36 |
  pedestrians | 5 | 44 |
  vehicles | 93-5 | 223-5 | 248 |
Lane discipline | 112-121 | 262 |
  dual carriageways | 116-7 |
  motorways | 238-40 |
  one-way streets | 121 |
  roundabouts | 160-63 |
Lane dividers | 110 | Road Markings |
Large vehicles | 105 | 136 | 140 | 196-7 | 208 | 267 |
  see also Long/large vehicles
Lay-bys | 223 | 224 |
Learner drivers | 180 | 193 | 227 | Annex 3 |
Level crossings | 32 | 143 | 217 | 265-72 |
Lighting requirements | 46 | 93-5 | 201 | 204 | 210-11 |
Lights see Headlamps and headlights, Lamps and lights
Lines and lanes | 106-111 | 116-21 | 160-161 | Road Markings |
  see also Traffic signs/road markings
Loading and unloading | 220-21 |
Loads | 74 | 224 |
Long/large vehicles see also Large vehicles
  cyclists | 58 | 63 |
  junctions | 146 | 149 |
  roadworks | 263 |
  roundabouts | 63 | 163-164 |
  trams | 273-7 |

Maintenance of vehicles | Annex 6 |
Manoeuvring | 135-66 | 176-9 |
  motorcycles | 71 |
  large vehicles | 196 |
Mini-roundabouts | 162 | 164-6 |
Mirrors | 137 | 160 | 178 | 204 | 262-3 | Annex 6 |
  changing lanes | 112 |
  fog | 209 |
  motorways | 228 | 241 |
  moving off | 73 | 135 |
  overtaking | 139 | 241 |
  turning | 155-156 | 158 |
Mobile phones | 127 | 249 | 252 | 257 | 259 | Annex 7 |
MOT | Annex 3 |
Motorcycle licence | Annex 2 |
Motorcyclists | 67-71 | 136 | 187-9 | 207-8 | 224 | 227 | 278
  conspicuity | 69-70 |
  junctions | 71 | 146 | 156 | 158 | 187-9 |
  learners | 180 | 193 | 227 | Annex 2 | Annex 3 |
  night riding | 70 |
  overall stopping distance | 105 | 202 | 205 | 210 | 234 |
  overtaking | 71 | 139 | 205 |
  rear observation | 71 | 188 |
  roundabouts | 163 |
  turning | 71 |
  winter | 205 | 91 |
Motorways | 227-47 |
  breakdowns | 249-52 |
  contraflow systems | 264 |
  emergency telephones | 249 | 257 |
  fog | 210 |
  hard shoulder | 249 | 264 |
  obstructions | 254 |
  pedestrians | 6 |
  road works | 263 |
  stopping and parking | 80 | 215 |
  studs and signs | 111 |
Moving off | 135 |

Narrow/winding roads see Country roads
Night
  animals | 36 | 44 |
  cyclists | 46 |
  driving | 82 |
  lights see Lamps and lights
  motorways | 241 |
  overtaking | 139 |
  parking | 222-4 |
  pedestrians | 3 | 5 | 17 |
  speed | 104 |

Obstructions | 253-4 |
  cyclists | 52 | 54 |
  lines/lanes | 262-3 |
  motorways | 254 |
  vehicles | 124 |
One-way streets | 121 |
  crossing | 11 |
  horses | 39 |
Organised walks | 5 |
Overtaking | 114 | 136 | 138-145 | 205 |
  before overtaking | 138 |
  bus lanes | 141 |
  being overtaken | 144-5 |
  crossings | 141 | 167 |
  cyclists | 56 | 108 | 136 | 139 | 188 | 207 |
  dual carriageways | 116-7 |
  long vehicles | 136 | 140 | 145 |
  motorcyclists | 71 | 139 | 205 |
  motorways | 241-3 |
  queues | 139 | 262 |
  single track roads | 133 |
  trams | 143 | 276 |

Parked vehicles
  Green Cross Code | 7 |
  pedestrians | 7 | 14 | 169 | 182 |
Parking | 213-26 | 275 |
  goods vehicles | 220-21 |
  hazard warning lights | 96 |
  level crossings | 265 |
  motorways | 80 | 215 |
  at night | 222-4 |
  pedestrian crossings | 167 |
  single track roads | 134 |
Passengers | 75 | 249 |
  cyclists | 53 |
  learners | Annex 2 |
  motorcyclists | 68 | Annex 2 |
Passing places | 133-4 |
Pavements
  cycling | 54 |
  driving | 123 |
  horses | 40 |
  parking | 218 |
  pedestrians | 1 | 2 | 4 |
  repairs | 33 |
Pedestrian crossings | 18-28 | 167-75 | 215 |
  controlled | 7 | 21-7 | 64 | 172-5 |
  pelican | | 7 | 22-5 | 26 | 64 | 172-4 |
  puffin | 7 | 25-6 | 64 | 175 |
  staggered | 26 |
  toucan | 7 | 25 | 65 | 175 |
  traffic lights | 21 |
  zebra | 7 | 19-20 | 64 | 171 |
Pedestrians | 1-33 | 104 | 124 | 130 | 132 | 178 | 180- 86 | 198 | 218 |
  blind/deaf/elderly | 23 | 48 | 51 | 180 | 183 | 218 |
  cyclists | 13 | 48 | 51 |
  junctions | 8 | 146 | 156 | 182 |
  motorways | 6 | 227 | 245 |
  safety | 1 | 180-86 | 214 |
  safety barriers | 9 |
  tramways | 31 | 182 | 198 | 277 |
Pelican crossings | 167-70 | 172-4 | 215 | pedestrians | 7 | 18 | 22-4 | 26 |
  cyclists | 64 |
Penalties | Annex 5 |
Pillion passengers | 68 | Annex 2 |
Police stopping procedure | 87 | 89 |
Positioning
  at junctions | 155 | 210 |
  on the road | 136 |
Powered vehicles for disabled drivers | 195 |
Protective clothing | 35 | 45 | 67 |
Puffin crossings | 167-70 | 175 | 215
  pedestrians | 7 | 18 | 25-6 |
  cyclists | 64 |

Queues | 145 |
  long vehicles | 145 |
  overtaking | 139 | 262 |
  pedestrian crossings | 168-9 |

Railway level crossings | 32 | 143 | 217 | 265-72 |
Rear fog lamps | 94 | 201 | 211 |
Rear view mirrors
  condition | 204 |
  driving | 137 | 160 | 178 |
  fog code | 209-10 |
Red routes | 215 | 221 | Road Markings |
Reflective clothing
  cyclists | 45 |
  horse riders | 35 |
  motorcyclists | 70 |
  pedestrians | 3 | 5 | 17 | 44 |
Reflective studs see Road studs
Reflectors | 46 | Annex 1 | Annex 6 |
Residential area
  lights | 95 |
  pedestrians | 130 | 182 |
  speed | 130 |
Reversing | 176-9 | 182 | 237 |
  vehicles | 15 |
Riding
  cycles | 47-63 |
  horses | 37-41 |
  motorcycles | 69-71 |
Road humps | 131 |
Road junctions | 71 | 124 | 143 | 146-59 | 187 |
  cyclists | 57-9 | 146 | 153-6 | 158-9 |
  lanes | 153 |
  parking | 217 |
  pedestrians | 8 | 146 | 156 | 182 |
Road signs see Traffic signs
Road studs | 111 |
Road traffic law | Annex 4 |
Road works | 33 | 143 | 262-4 |
  contraflow systems | 264 |
  motorways | 263 |
Roundabouts | 160-66 |
  cyclists | 61-3 | 163 |
  horse riders | 41 | 163 |
  long vehicles | 63 | 163 | 164 |
  mini-roundabouts | 162 | 164-6 |
  multiple-roundabouts | 166 |
  road markings | 160-61 |
Route guidance and navigation systems | 128 |

Safety barriers, pedestrian | 9 |
Safety helmets
  cyclists | 45 |
  horse riders | 34 |
  motorcyclists | 67 | 69 | 257 | Annex 7 |
School crossing patrols | 7 | 27 | 87 | 184-6 |
  overtaking | 143 | 185 |
Seatbelts | 75-7 | Annex 6 |
Security of vehicles | 214 | Annex 6 |
Separation distance
  cyclists | 136 | 139 | 188 | 207 |
  fog | 210 |
  large vehicles | 197 |
  motorways | 234 |
  overall stopping distance | 105 | 129 | 202 | 205 | 210 | 234 | 263 |
  overtaking | 139 | 140 | 197 |
Signals | 85-92 |
  arm | 38 | 39 | 41 | 52 | 59 | 85 | P71 |
  buses | 198 |
  cyclists | 52 | 59 |
  flashing | 29 | 90 | 91 | 255 | 266 |
  horseriders | 38 | 39 | 41 | 191 |
  junctions | 85 | 155 | 158 | 162 |
  lane changes | 112-3 |
  large goods vehicles | 163 |
  motorcyclists | 71 |
  motorways | 229-32 | 241 | 244 |
  moving off | 135 |
  other road users | 85, 86 |
  overtaking | 139 | 241 |
  pedestrian crossings | 22-6 | 172 | 174 | 175 |
  police/wardens/schools | 87 | 89 |
Single carriageways | 114-5 |
Single track roads | 133-4 |
Skidding | 99 |
  ABS braking | 100 |
  avoiding | 206 |
Slip roads | 233 | 244 | 246-7 |
Slippery roads see Wet roads
Slow moving traffic | 129 | 139 | 262 |
Slow moving vehicles | 145 | 195 | 199 | 200 | 227 | 238 | 263 |
  climbing/crawler lanes | 118 |
  flashing amber lights | 200 |
  level crossings | 267 |
  queues | 145 |
Snow | 203-6 |
Soft tarmac | 212 |
Speed limits | 103-4 | 124 | 130 | 231 | 235 | 262 |
Steering condition | Annex 6 |
  winter driving | 206 |
Stopping/parking | 213-26 |
  level crossings | 265 | 268 |
  mobile phones | 127 |
  motorways | 80 | 215 | 244-5 |
  pedestrian crossings | 167-8 | 172-3 | 215 |
  single track roads | 134 |
Stopping distance | 105 | 129 | 202 | 205 | 210 | 234 | 263
  see also Separation distance
Street repairs | 33 |

Tactile paving | 10 |
Telephones
  mobile phones | 127 | 252 | 257 | 259 | Annex 6 |
  railway | 267 | 270 | 272 |
  motorways | 249 | 257 |
Theory test | Annex 2 | Annex 3 |
Tinted glass | 82 |
Tiredness/illness | 80 | 212 | 236 |
Toucan crossings | 167 | 175 | 215 |
  pedestrians | 7 | 25 |
  cyclists | 65 |
Towing | 74 | 136 |
Traffic calming | 131 |
Traffic lights | 88 | 160 | 161 | P70 |
  cyclists | 50 | 55 | 64-6 | 153-4 |
  green filter lights | 153 |
  junctions | 151-4 |
  level crossings | 266 | 269 |
  pedestrians | 21 |
  trams | 274 |
Traffic signs/road markings | 88 | 113 | 121 | 160 | 161 | 209 | 213 | 262 | 271 |
  see also Lines and lanes | giving orders | warning signs | direction signs | information signs |road work signs | road markings |
  cyclists | 49 | 50 | 55 | 119 | 154 |
  junctions | 147 | 148 | 150 | 151 | 154 | 157 | 160 |
  traffic lights | 88 | 151-4 | P70 |
Traffic wardens | 7 | 87 |
Trailers | 74 | 136 | 224 | 239 |
Tramways | 120 | 198 | 273-8 |
  overtaking | 143 | 274 |
  parking | 215 | 217 | 275 |
  pedestrians | 31 | 182 | 198 | 277 |
  turning left | 159 |
Triangles | 148 | 248 |
Turning left
  bus/tram/cycle lanes | 159 |
  junctions | 158-9 |
  one-way streets | 121 |
  roundabouts | 162 |
Turning right
  box junctions | 150 |
  cyclists | 59 | 188 |
  dual carriageways | 116 | 149 |
  hatch markings | 109 |
  junctions | 155-7 |
  one-way streets | 121 |
  roundabouts | 162 |
  traffic lights | 152 | 153 |
Two second rule | 105 |
  see also Separation distance
Tyres | 202 | Annex 1 | Annex 6 |

U-turn | 164 |

Vehicle condition | 72-3 | Annex 6 |
Vehicle Excise Duty | Annex 3 |
Vehicle licence | Annex 2 | Annex 3 |
Vehicle markings | 258-9 | Road Markings |
Vehicle Registration Document | Annex 3 |
Vehicle security | 214 | Annex 6 |
Vehicle Test Certificate | 84 |
Visibility | 82 | 135 | 136 | 204 | 248 |
  fog | 201 | 210 |
  junctions | 71 | 146 | 187 |
  lights | 93-4 | 201 | 210 |
  motorways | 210 | 241 |
  overtaking | 138 | 139 | 142 | 241 |
  pedestrians/cyclists | 3 | 8 | 124 | 136 | 146 |
  reversing | 178 | 182 |
  snow | 201 | 204 |

Vision | 81 |

Waiting | 213 |
Warning lights | 90 |
Water (on brakes) | 101 |
Wet / icy/slippery roads | 189 | 202-6 | 212 | 278 |
  pedestrian crossings | 171 |
  speed limits | 104 |
  stopping distances | 105 | 202 | 205 | 234 |
White lines | 106-111 | Road Markings |
Windscreens/washers/wipers | 204 | 210 | Annex 6 |
Windy weather | 207-8 |
Winter driving | Annex 6 | see also Snow, Wet/icy/slippery roads

Yellow lines | 213 | 221 | Road Markings |
Young children | 4 | 7 |

Zebra crossings | 167-71 | 215 |
  pedestrians | 7 | 18 | 19-20 |
  cyclists | 64 |

[Overview] [TheTests] [Highway Code] [Learn 2 Drive] [Training Aids] [SupportForum]