Meeting vehicles

Depending on your training area, you might find yourself in a meeting situation on your first or very early lessons with learners. If this is unavoidable give as much assistance as needed and introduce the basics regarding the 'accepted rules' for priority.

A dedicated meeting lesson can be introduces as soon as the learner has mastered the MSM routine for left turns. If you have access to very quiet routes with few or no obstructions you can leave this lesson until right turns have also been mastered.

Your first meeting lesson will be on quiet roads with 'simple' obstructions, for example, parked cars or traffic calming on a quiet residential estate.

After the first meeting lesson you will continue to offer help an advice as new or busier situations arise. Later on in your courses you can build a dedicated meeting route with as many different types of meet situations as you can find. My demonstration route (for ADI training) includes both quiet and busy roads with parked cars on the left, parked cars on the right, parked cars on both sides, roads narrowing for bridges, traffic calming with priority signs, a single-track road, and some of these things on both up and downhill gradients.

Lesson goals

Your goal:

To ensure that your pupil can recognise meet situations and take appropriate action when meeting vehicles.

Learner’s goals:

To understand the need for and demonstrate appropriate actions when meeting traffic including the ability to:

• Recognise meet situations
• Approach meet situations safely, using the MSM routine
• Deal correctly with other road users in meet situations
  
• Proceed in meet situations when safe and correct to do so

Note that these are generic lesson goals. Individual learners will have specific personal goals and other goals related to different aspects of learning but still relevant to the lesson. The lesson goals shown here are to help you to break down the process and skill into it's component parts.

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