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Meeting other traffic
When you are driving along any two-way road and another vehicle approaches you ‘meet’ each other and then ‘pass’.
As long as the road is wide enough and you are a safe distance apart this poses no problems for either driver - it happens millions of times on millions of roads every day without incident.
However, during your training, the term ‘meeting’ will normally reserved for situations where the gap you are approaching isn't big enough for two vehicles to fit through safely and where one driver has to give way.
Reasons for 'meet situations' vary; it could be that there are road works, parked cars or other obstructions, traffic calming bollards or other obstructions. The one thing that all 'meet' situations share is the fact that the available road space is reduced.
In order to meet vehicles safely in narrow situations you need to take special care, however, having said this, just like on wider roads, meet situations happen millions of times on millions of roads every day without incident!
Meeting safely
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