Joining the motorway
When entering the motorway, exercise care and attention, and yield to traffic on the motorway. You must follow the steps below when joining a motorway.
- Use the acceleration lane to build up your speed before merging into traffic on the motorway.
- Signal early to other motorists that you intend to merge.
- As you approach on the slip road, check in your mirrors and your blind spot for a safe gap in traffic in the left-hand lane of the motorway.
- Obey road signs and road markings.
- Do not drive on hatch markings before merging into traffic on the motorway.
- Give way to traffic already on the motorway.
- Adjust your speed as you join the motorway so you match, as near as possible, the general speed of traffic in that lane.
- Treat each lane change as a seperate manoeuvre. Stay in the left-hand lane long enough to adjust to the speed of traffic before attempting to overtake.
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