BERMUDA DRIVING CORE EXAM SET 2026/2027
QUESTIONS AND SOLUTIONS RATED A+
✔✔8 commandments of safe motoring - ✔✔1. Know and control your vehicle
2. Develop car sense and know the capabilities of your vehicle
3. Give proper signals, use horn and headlights thoughtfully
4. Concentrate all the time to avoid collisions
5. Think before acting
6. Exercise restraint and hold back when necessary
7. Corner with safety, controlling the vehicle at all times
8. Know traffic code handbook and put into practice
✔✔Basic safe driving rule - ✔✔Be able to stop on your own side of the road within the
distance you can see to clear
✔✔Braking (4) - ✔✔1. Brake firmly only when traveling in straight line
2. Brake in plenty of time
3. Vary brake pressure according to the condition of the road surface
4. When descending a steep winding hill, brake firmly on straight stretches and ease off
in bends (remember value of engaging a lower gear at an early stage in descent)
✔✔Signs with blue circles - ✔✔Positive instruction
✔✔Signs with red circles - ✔✔- Mostly prohibitive
- Give orders
✔✔Triangular signs - ✔✔Mostly warning signs
✔✔Rectangular signs - ✔✔Mostly informational
✔✔Box junctions - ✔✔- Crisscross yellow lines painted on road you must not enter the
box until your exit road or lane is clear
- You may enter the box and wait when you want to turn right and are only stopped from
doing so by oncoming traffic or by other vehicles waiting to turn right
- Enter only if your exit road is clear
✔✔Using handbrake - ✔✔- Only use when vehicle is stationary
- Protect the locking mechanism by pressing the release button whenever you apply or
release the handbrake
✔✔Solid yellow line - ✔✔- May cross line if necessary to pass a stationary vehicle or
over take a pedal cycle horse or road maintenance vehicle if they are traveling at 15
km/hr or less
- Should not cross or straddle it (unless it is safe and you need to enter adjoining
premises or a side road)
, - Must not wait or park opposite yellow line
✔✔Filtration - ✔✔When held up at a road junction by a police officer regulating traffic,
do not turn to the left, that is filter, unless you are given definite indication to do so by
him
✔✔Rule of the road in Bermuda - ✔✔Keep to the left unless about to overtake or turn
right (does not apply on one way roads or roundabouts)
✔✔Order of operations - ✔✔Observation —> Signal —> Maneuver
✔✔Lane dividers - ✔✔Short, broken, white lines which are used on wide carriageways
to divide them into lanes you should keep between them
✔✔Horn does not - ✔✔- Give you right of way
- Absolve you from duty of taking every precaution to avoid an accident
✔✔Use of horn - ✔✔- Attract attention of a vulnerable road user
- When approaching a hazard where view is very limited
✔✔Signal - ✔✔- Informative
- Warning, not instruction (gives no right to carry out the intended action unless it is
safe)
✔✔4 occasions when it is permissible to overtake on the left - ✔✔1. When preceding
driver has signaled a right turn and there is room to pass safely on the left
2. 2-lane systems when traffic in the right lane is moving slower than you
3. When turning left at stop (except let turn sign)
4. 1-way systems
✔✔4 Places to never overtake - ✔✔1. Corner or bend
2. At or approaching the brown of hill
3. Crossroads
4. Pedestrian crossing
✔✔Stationary bus - ✔✔Check if passengers are about to board or alight before
overtaking
✔✔Overtaking - key safety points - ✔✔- Do not overtake where you cannot see far
enough ahead to be sure it is safe
- Avoid causing other vehicles to alter course or speed
- Always be able to move back to the near side in plenty of time
- Always be able to abandon overtaking if a new hazard comes into view
- Do not overtake in situations where you may come into conflict with other road users
QUESTIONS AND SOLUTIONS RATED A+
✔✔8 commandments of safe motoring - ✔✔1. Know and control your vehicle
2. Develop car sense and know the capabilities of your vehicle
3. Give proper signals, use horn and headlights thoughtfully
4. Concentrate all the time to avoid collisions
5. Think before acting
6. Exercise restraint and hold back when necessary
7. Corner with safety, controlling the vehicle at all times
8. Know traffic code handbook and put into practice
✔✔Basic safe driving rule - ✔✔Be able to stop on your own side of the road within the
distance you can see to clear
✔✔Braking (4) - ✔✔1. Brake firmly only when traveling in straight line
2. Brake in plenty of time
3. Vary brake pressure according to the condition of the road surface
4. When descending a steep winding hill, brake firmly on straight stretches and ease off
in bends (remember value of engaging a lower gear at an early stage in descent)
✔✔Signs with blue circles - ✔✔Positive instruction
✔✔Signs with red circles - ✔✔- Mostly prohibitive
- Give orders
✔✔Triangular signs - ✔✔Mostly warning signs
✔✔Rectangular signs - ✔✔Mostly informational
✔✔Box junctions - ✔✔- Crisscross yellow lines painted on road you must not enter the
box until your exit road or lane is clear
- You may enter the box and wait when you want to turn right and are only stopped from
doing so by oncoming traffic or by other vehicles waiting to turn right
- Enter only if your exit road is clear
✔✔Using handbrake - ✔✔- Only use when vehicle is stationary
- Protect the locking mechanism by pressing the release button whenever you apply or
release the handbrake
✔✔Solid yellow line - ✔✔- May cross line if necessary to pass a stationary vehicle or
over take a pedal cycle horse or road maintenance vehicle if they are traveling at 15
km/hr or less
- Should not cross or straddle it (unless it is safe and you need to enter adjoining
premises or a side road)
, - Must not wait or park opposite yellow line
✔✔Filtration - ✔✔When held up at a road junction by a police officer regulating traffic,
do not turn to the left, that is filter, unless you are given definite indication to do so by
him
✔✔Rule of the road in Bermuda - ✔✔Keep to the left unless about to overtake or turn
right (does not apply on one way roads or roundabouts)
✔✔Order of operations - ✔✔Observation —> Signal —> Maneuver
✔✔Lane dividers - ✔✔Short, broken, white lines which are used on wide carriageways
to divide them into lanes you should keep between them
✔✔Horn does not - ✔✔- Give you right of way
- Absolve you from duty of taking every precaution to avoid an accident
✔✔Use of horn - ✔✔- Attract attention of a vulnerable road user
- When approaching a hazard where view is very limited
✔✔Signal - ✔✔- Informative
- Warning, not instruction (gives no right to carry out the intended action unless it is
safe)
✔✔4 occasions when it is permissible to overtake on the left - ✔✔1. When preceding
driver has signaled a right turn and there is room to pass safely on the left
2. 2-lane systems when traffic in the right lane is moving slower than you
3. When turning left at stop (except let turn sign)
4. 1-way systems
✔✔4 Places to never overtake - ✔✔1. Corner or bend
2. At or approaching the brown of hill
3. Crossroads
4. Pedestrian crossing
✔✔Stationary bus - ✔✔Check if passengers are about to board or alight before
overtaking
✔✔Overtaking - key safety points - ✔✔- Do not overtake where you cannot see far
enough ahead to be sure it is safe
- Avoid causing other vehicles to alter course or speed
- Always be able to move back to the near side in plenty of time
- Always be able to abandon overtaking if a new hazard comes into view
- Do not overtake in situations where you may come into conflict with other road users
