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Module 11 of 26

People, animals and trains

Pedestrians, children, cyclists and animals move unpredictably. A train does not move unpredictably at all — it simply cannot stop for you, which is why the railway sign belongs with them.

The hazards that move unpredictably, and the one that cannot stop for you at all.

What these signs are really telling you

A red-bordered triangle showing a black figure of a walking person.

A person, a child, a cyclist or an animal is not a hazard because it is in the road. It is a hazard because it may enter the road without warning, from a place you are not looking at.

So the response is not only to slow down. It is to move your eyes off the tarmac and onto the verges, the gaps between parked cars, and the gates.

The rest of this lesson

  • Children are a different case
  • Animals
  • The one that cannot stop

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