BERMUDA DRIVING PAST TEST PAPER 2026/2027
QUESTIONS AND SOLUTIONS RATED A+
✔✔Alcohol (limit = 80 mg / 100 ml of blood) will - ✔✔- Give false sense of confidence
- Reduce coordination and slow down reactions
- Affect judgement of speed, distance and risk
- Reduce your driving ability, even if you are below the legal limit
✔✔4 rules of steering - ✔✔1. Do not place elbows on window frame, armrests, etc.
2. Hands in "ten to two" position on wheel, not gripping tightly
3. Grip should be tightened when cornering or braking (both hands)
4. Slippery roads — steering movements should be delicate or skids may be induced
✔✔Reversing (5) - ✔✔- Scan area for suitability and obstructions
- Ensure you have an unobstructed view
- Use mirrors to your advantage while reversing (don't be totally reliant on them)
- Wind down window for more all-around awareness
- Get someone to help you if possible
✔✔While reversing (3) - ✔✔- Travel slowly and slip clutch if necessary
- Remember that, as you steer, the front of your vehicle moves out and could strike
nearby objects
- Look all around to make sure there are no hazards
✔✔Accidents (8 steps) - ✔✔1. Use hazard warning lights
2. Ask drivers to switch off their engines and stop smoking
3. Call emergency services immediately with full details of location and any casualties
4. Move uninjured people away from the vehicles to safety
5. Do not move injured people from their vehicles unless they are in immediate danger
from fire or explosion
6. Do not remove a motorcyclist's helmet unless it is essential to do so
7. Be prepared to give first aid
8. Stay at scene until emergency services arrive
✔✔Accident procedure/documentation (3) - ✔✔- Stop
- Give your own and vehicle owner's name and address and registration number of the
vehicle to anyone having reasonable grounds for requiring them
- If you do not give information at time of accident, you must report incident to police as
soon as reasonably practicable, within 24 hours
✔✔If another person is injured and you do not produce insurance certificate at time of
accident to police officer, you must - ✔✔- Report accident to police as soon as possible,
within 24 hours
- Produce your insurance certificate for police within 7 days
, ✔✔4 night driving rules - ✔✔1. Clean all windows inside and out, use wipers and
washers during the drive, reduces reflected glare
2. Always drive within the limits of your lights and obtain early warnings from the lights
of others
3. Familiarize yourself with all controls in the dark, keep interior lights to minimum
4. Reduce speed when dazzled and look to the near side curb, do not retaliate
✔✔Drivers at risk - ✔✔- If you had an accident in a 3 year period, your are 2x as likely
to have another accident in the next 3 years
- If you have had an accident for which you could be held at least partly responsible,
you are 4x more likely to have a similar accident in the next year
✔✔ If dazzled by high beams/headlights - ✔✔Slow down, even to standstill
✔✔Dip headlights - ✔✔- When meeting other vehicles on road
- Following another vehicle which you do not intend to overtake
✔✔Traffic in front of you is held up - ✔✔Do not encroach on the offside of the road (and
impede other traffic)
✔✔Load carried behind vehicle - ✔✔Mark the end with red cloth by day or red lamp by
night
✔✔Turning right - ✔✔- Bear to the center
- Make turn so that the vehicle is "outside" to the left of the center of the crossroads or
of the road junction
✔✔Turning - ✔✔- Do not attempt on curve or hill if vehicle cannot be seen within 200
feet
- Best to go to side road or entrance, back into it and then come forward into main road
✔✔Do not stop opposite (3) - ✔✔- Refuge
- Road repairs (other obstacles)
- Standing vehicle
✔✔Do not stop near (4) - ✔✔- Bend
- Road junction
- Brow of hill
- Hump-backed bridge
✔✔Do not stop if you're obstructing (2) - ✔✔- Pedestrian crossing
- Traffic sign
✔✔Stopping distance - ✔✔- Leaving enough space between you and vehicle in front so
that you can pull up safely if it suddenly slows down or stops
QUESTIONS AND SOLUTIONS RATED A+
✔✔Alcohol (limit = 80 mg / 100 ml of blood) will - ✔✔- Give false sense of confidence
- Reduce coordination and slow down reactions
- Affect judgement of speed, distance and risk
- Reduce your driving ability, even if you are below the legal limit
✔✔4 rules of steering - ✔✔1. Do not place elbows on window frame, armrests, etc.
2. Hands in "ten to two" position on wheel, not gripping tightly
3. Grip should be tightened when cornering or braking (both hands)
4. Slippery roads — steering movements should be delicate or skids may be induced
✔✔Reversing (5) - ✔✔- Scan area for suitability and obstructions
- Ensure you have an unobstructed view
- Use mirrors to your advantage while reversing (don't be totally reliant on them)
- Wind down window for more all-around awareness
- Get someone to help you if possible
✔✔While reversing (3) - ✔✔- Travel slowly and slip clutch if necessary
- Remember that, as you steer, the front of your vehicle moves out and could strike
nearby objects
- Look all around to make sure there are no hazards
✔✔Accidents (8 steps) - ✔✔1. Use hazard warning lights
2. Ask drivers to switch off their engines and stop smoking
3. Call emergency services immediately with full details of location and any casualties
4. Move uninjured people away from the vehicles to safety
5. Do not move injured people from their vehicles unless they are in immediate danger
from fire or explosion
6. Do not remove a motorcyclist's helmet unless it is essential to do so
7. Be prepared to give first aid
8. Stay at scene until emergency services arrive
✔✔Accident procedure/documentation (3) - ✔✔- Stop
- Give your own and vehicle owner's name and address and registration number of the
vehicle to anyone having reasonable grounds for requiring them
- If you do not give information at time of accident, you must report incident to police as
soon as reasonably practicable, within 24 hours
✔✔If another person is injured and you do not produce insurance certificate at time of
accident to police officer, you must - ✔✔- Report accident to police as soon as possible,
within 24 hours
- Produce your insurance certificate for police within 7 days
, ✔✔4 night driving rules - ✔✔1. Clean all windows inside and out, use wipers and
washers during the drive, reduces reflected glare
2. Always drive within the limits of your lights and obtain early warnings from the lights
of others
3. Familiarize yourself with all controls in the dark, keep interior lights to minimum
4. Reduce speed when dazzled and look to the near side curb, do not retaliate
✔✔Drivers at risk - ✔✔- If you had an accident in a 3 year period, your are 2x as likely
to have another accident in the next 3 years
- If you have had an accident for which you could be held at least partly responsible,
you are 4x more likely to have a similar accident in the next year
✔✔ If dazzled by high beams/headlights - ✔✔Slow down, even to standstill
✔✔Dip headlights - ✔✔- When meeting other vehicles on road
- Following another vehicle which you do not intend to overtake
✔✔Traffic in front of you is held up - ✔✔Do not encroach on the offside of the road (and
impede other traffic)
✔✔Load carried behind vehicle - ✔✔Mark the end with red cloth by day or red lamp by
night
✔✔Turning right - ✔✔- Bear to the center
- Make turn so that the vehicle is "outside" to the left of the center of the crossroads or
of the road junction
✔✔Turning - ✔✔- Do not attempt on curve or hill if vehicle cannot be seen within 200
feet
- Best to go to side road or entrance, back into it and then come forward into main road
✔✔Do not stop opposite (3) - ✔✔- Refuge
- Road repairs (other obstacles)
- Standing vehicle
✔✔Do not stop near (4) - ✔✔- Bend
- Road junction
- Brow of hill
- Hump-backed bridge
✔✔Do not stop if you're obstructing (2) - ✔✔- Pedestrian crossing
- Traffic sign
✔✔Stopping distance - ✔✔- Leaving enough space between you and vehicle in front so
that you can pull up safely if it suddenly slows down or stops
