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1 DO NOT use a motorway if your vehicle cannot maintain a fair speed or if it is likely to break down. Make sure that brakes, steering, tyres, lights, indicators and windscreen wipers are in good condition.

2 DO NOT use a motorway if you cannot trust yourself to drive in safely in conditions where average speeds will be high. It is an offence for learner drivers to use motorways.

3 DO NOT drive on a motorway if your faculties are impaired in any way. Even small quantities of alcohol or drugs may affect your judgment.

4 Look out for the direction signs at the approaches to a motorway so as to avoid joining the wrong carriageway.

5 GIVE WAY TO TRAFFIC ALREADY ON THE MOTORWAY

6 When joining a motorway at an intermediate access point, you will approach it from the slip road on the left. Watch for a safe gap between vehicles in the near side traffic lane on the motorway and increase your speed in the acceleration lane to the speed of traffic in the near side lane before joining it.

Speeds

7 No upper or lower speed limits apply at present, except for a maximum speed of 40 m.p.h. on certain types of vehicles drawing trailers.

8 Drive at a steady cruising speed comfortably within your capacity and that of your vehicle.

9 The law relating to careless, reckless and dangerous driving still applies.

Lane Discipline

10 Always KEEP WELL TO THE LEFT except when overtaking.

11 After entering the left-hand traffic lane of a motorway, stay in it long enough to accustom yourself to the speed of vehicles in that lane before attempting to move out into a faster right-hand lane to overtake.

12 KEEP WITHIN THE CARRIAGEWAY LANE MARKINGS and cross them only when changing from one lane to another. Before changing lanes you must be sure that it is safe to do so particularly at high speeds. DO NOT WANDER FROM LANE TO LANE.

13 On a two-lane carriageway, keep to the left-hand lane except when overtaking.

14 One a three-lane carriageway, you may keep to the centre lane when the left-hand lane is occupied by slower moving vehicles. The outer (right-hand) lane is for overtaking only; do not stay in it longer than is necessary after overtaking vehicles in the centre lane.

15 DO NOT DRIVE TOO CLOSE TO THE VEHICLE AHEAD OF YOU IN YOUR LANE; allow at least one vehicle length between your vehicle and the one ahead of you for every ten miles per hour of your speed, and more at night or in rain or snow.

Overtaking

16 OVERTAKE ONLY ON THE RIGHT. Right-hand lanes will be