Bicycle Queensland - Heavy Vehicle Visibility and Road Safety Awareness Quiz | Take the Quiz

Watch the videos and complete the questions that follow. Repeat the quiz until you get over 85% correct to complete your Bicycle Queensland Heavy Vehicle Awareness certification. Please note you will be asked to repeat the quiz until you get over 85%.

Learning Goals:

- To define a Heavy Vehicle (Aust.) and understand what contributes to a driver’s visibility.

- Consider methods that improve roadside visibility and propose strategies to decrease the risk of conflict between heavy vehicles and other road users.

Learning Goals:

- To define a Heavy Vehicle (Aust.) and understand what contributes to a driver’s visibility.

- Consider methods that improve roadside visibility and propose strategies to decrease the risk of conflict between heavy vehicles and other road users.

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Watch the video and complete the questions that follow.

How do you feel after watching the video?

Shocked

Surprised

Angry

No change

Visit the Queensland Government Road Rules website and paste the definition of a heavy and long vehicle from the website.

What did the young lady do to see over the bonnet of the truck?

Turn on the camera

Stand up

Move one of the mirrors

Tilt her head

Identify how standing inside the cabin might cause some safety concerns

It is often thought that being higher than other road users would increase visibility. Describe how being higher than other road users might reduce visibility around the heavy vehicle.

Identify what non-visible areas outside the driver's cabin are commonly known as.

Hot spots

Hard spots

Blind spots

Mind blocks

The bicycle riders in the video are wearing appropriate personal protective equipment (PPE) and this is one way to be seen. How can bicycle riders, motorcyclists and pedestrians improve their road behaviours to help reduce conflict on the roads? Select all that apply.

Give eye contact when possible and use positive communication to signal your intention

If practical, always give way to heavy vehicles

Acknowledge that if you can't see the driver's mirrors they can't see you

Allow turning vehicles to manoeuvre before passing

When possible move to where you can be seen by the driver

Always continue on the bike lane regardless of what the heavy vehicle is doing

Show empathy and patience when near heavy vehicles

Watch this video and answer the questions that follow.

According to the video, the right side of a heavy vehicle can have a blind spot. The heavy vehicle mirrors will not show a car...(select one)

That is red and white.

That does not indicate.

Coming out of driveway.

That is smaller than a four door sedan.

There are 9 recognised blind spots in heavy vehicle training. Identify the most effective strategy to make sure you are not in one of the blind spots (select one).

Have this picture in your pocket at all times

Take some time to look carefully at the vehicles on the road.

Make eye contact with the driver and signal your intentions.

Always use a bright lights and light coloured clothing.

Which bicycle rider is the driver more likely to see while stopped at a set of lights?

None of the above

How can road users (other than drivers) positively communicate with heavy vehicle drivers? Tick all that apply.

Make eye contact with the driver.

Wear bright clothing and be predictable.

Sit at the front of every intersection with stop lights and be ready to move before the lights change

Always use appropriate hand signals to show your intention and stay as far left as practical

Ride with confidence and assume drivers will give you space

React with exaggerated movements and yell to get the driver's attention

Assess the road ahead of you and determine if there is enough room for a truck to pass you safely

Let the driver know if the road shoulder is compromised

According to heavy vehicle experts and cycling enthusiasts, one thing heavy vehicle drivers and bicycle riders have in common is that they are both trying to maintain... (Select one)

Their weight

A good track record

Momentum

An anxious sense of awareness

Heavy vehicle experts suggest that positive communication is effective in helping them understand the riders intention and maintain momentum. If you were to signal to a driver that the road shoulder was not safe for a bicycle, which hand signal would be most effective? This question is not marked.

Right arm extended with right hand tapping right shoulder

Right arm extended with with thumb down

Right arm extended in front swinging down to ward right hip

Right arm tapping top of helmet

After completing this quiz how has your heavy vehicle awareness changed?

Much more aware

A little more aware

No change

Less aware

After completing this quiz have you learnt new strategies to increase your visibility?

I have learnt a couple of new strategies

I have at least one new strategy

I have not learnt new strategies

I still don't have any strategies

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