Vulnerable Road Users Practice Questions
About This Topic
This topic focuses on the people most at risk around your vehicle: pedestrians, children, older people, cyclists, motorcyclists and horse riders. The questions test the specific rules that protect them — passing distances, priority at crossings and junctions — and the extra patience the Highway Code demands.
What the DVSA tests here
- How much room to give cyclists and horse riders when overtaking
- Priority rules at pedestrian crossings, and care around children and school patrols
- Where to expect motorcyclists and cyclists at junctions and in slow traffic
Practising this topic
There are 71 questions on vulnerable road users in this practice bank, and every answer comes with an explanation so you can learn from your mistakes as you go. In the real car theory test the DVSA mixes all fourteen topics into one 50-question paper with a pass mark of 43, so no single subject can be skipped. A good rule of thumb is to keep practising a topic until you clear it comfortably several times in a row.
In the run-up to test day
Most learners find that little and often beats long cramming sessions: two or three short rounds of questions a day keep the rules fresh without wearing you out. Pair this topic with the matching chapters of the Highway Code, and use hazard perception clips to watch the same ideas play out on real roads. In the final week before your booking, switch from topic practice to full mock tests so you get used to the 57-minute time limit and to questions arriving in no particular order.