Highway Code 2025 Rules 7 - 16

Rule 7

What is the Green Cross Code?

• The advice on marking driving tests

• The advice given on crossing the road for all pedestrians.

• The advice for school crossing points

• The legal code when applying for your driving test.

Rule 7

What is the first rule of the Green Cross Code?

• Find a safe place to cross

• Look left and right

• Walk across the road slowly

• Stop the traffic before crossing.

Rule 7

From the lists below which group shows only safe crossing points?

Read carefully!

• subway, footbridge, roundabout, zebra, pelican, toucan or puffin crossing, crossing point controlled by a police officer, a school crossing patrol or a traffic warden.

• subway, footbridge, traffic island, pony, pelican, toucan or puffin crossing, crossing point controlled by a police officer, a school crossing patrol or a traffic warden.

• KFC, footbridge, traffic island, zebra, pelican, toucan or puffin crossing, crossing point controlled by a police officer, a school crossing patrol or a traffic warden.

• subway, footbridge, traffic island, zebra, pelican, toucan or puffin crossing, crossing point controlled by a police officer, a school crossing patrol or a traffic warden.

Rule 7

If you can not find a designated safe place to cross, what should you do?

• Find a space between parked cars

• Choose a place where you can see clearly in all directions.

• Cross the road diagonally.

• Find the brow of a hill so you can see better.

Rule 7

Which one shows the correct steps of the Green Cross Code?

• 1) Find a safe place to cross

  2) Stop just before you get to the kerb

  3) Look & listen all around for traffic

  4) If traffic is coming, let it pass

  5) When it is safe, go straight across the road – do not run

• 1) Find a safe place to cross

  2) Look & listen all around for traffic

  3) Stop just before you get to the kerb

  4) If traffic is coming, let it pass

  5) When it is safe, go straight across the road – do not run

• 1) Stop just before you get to the kerb

  2) Look & listen all around for traffic

  3) Find a safe place to cross

  4) If traffic is coming, let it pass

  5) When it is safe, go straight across the road – do not run

• 1) Find a safe place to cross

  2) Stop just before you get to the kerb

  3) Look & listen all around for traffic

  4) If traffic is coming, let it pass

  5) When it is safe, run straight across the road

Rule 8

When pedestrians are crossing the road at a junction who has the right of way?

• The car indicating at the junction

• The pedestrian

• The cyclist

• All have equal right of way.

Answer explanation

At a junction. When crossing the road, pedestrians must look out for traffic turning into the road, especially from behind them. If they have started crossing and traffic wants to turn into the road, the pedestrian have priority and drivers should give way (see Rule 170).

Rule 9

Where there are barriers, cross the road only "________" pedestrians.

• when its safe to remove the barriers for

• at the correct crossing times for school

• at the gaps provided for

• in the daytime for

Answer explanation

Rule 9
Pedestrian Safety Barriers. Where there are barriers, cross the road only at the gaps provided for pedestrians. Do not climb over the barriers or walk between them and the road.

Rule 10
What is tactile paving?

• Surfaces that can be seen by the eye

  easily to show danger.

• Raised surfaces that can be felt underfoot provide warning and guidance to blind or partially sighted people.

• Raised surfaces with an alarm that can be heard to provide warning and guidance to blind or partially sighted people.

• Bumps in the road to slow down traffic.

Rule 10

Raised surfaces that can be felt underfoot provide warning and guidance to blind or partially sighted people is called.

• Track paving

• Thimble paving

• Dimple paving

• Tactile paving

Rule 11

True or False?

On one way streets: Check which way the traffic is moving. Do not cross until it is safe to do so without stopping. Bus and cycle lanes may operate in the opposite direction to the rest of the traffic.

• True

• False

Answer explanation

True, on one way streets Bus and cycle lanes may operate in the opposite direction to the rest of the traffic.