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Dispute Failed Driving Test?
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I guess its hard to explain.
There were no cars there to be cut off as they give way to cars exiting at the said turning.
The jist of it is that although the examiner appreciates that you have to move from the inside lane across and over the outside lane to exit onto the said road... she claims that in doing so the car should adjoin the road with the car positioned towards the centre lines of that road.
My girlfriend joined the road with the car more central because it is not 2 lanes, its 1.
The examiner seems to have failed her on the premise that its a 2 lane road and that she cut into the inside lane of it immediately on exiting the roundabout.
Buts its 1 lane. I work in transport and I even maintain the lining and signing of this road so albeit a wide road its not 2 lanes as there as no centre lines nor signing to suggest traffic must merge into 1 lane!!
Its a complete joke!!!!
Every town has this by the sounds of it, a tricky roundabout where every instructor has their own take on it.
The test cost £110... 60 quid to book, 20 for the lesson before hand and then another 30 quid on the day.0 -
Presumably her instructor has shown her how to negotiate the roundabout? (They usually know all possible test routes).
Can't he show her what she did wrong?0 -
Her instructor kinda umm'd and ahh'd after the test and said they would practice it more.
Heres a lame picture of it.
My girlfriend drove the red line. The examiner says she should have driven the blue bit but the road isnt 2 lanes. (Its wide, but not marked as 2 lanes as its a bit of a bottle neck at the pedestrian crossing.
The examiner claims the cars driving the pink routes would have been cut off by her.
But those cars give way to her. pfft. Its a joke.
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From your diagram, she should have got over to the outside (ie left hand lane) of the roundabout much earlier than shown. She was a danger to the cars in the pink route, who would not expect to give way to her crossing them to get out of the roundabout.0
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Yup thats basically what she did, moved over to the outside lane a bit earlier that my red line suggests.... but the examiner said thats what shes done wrong, cutting off the pink cars!!
The examiner said she should have stayed in the inside lane longer and exited via the blue line...0 -
I agree. She seems to have been positioned to continue around the roundabout instead of exiting. Given that faulty positioning, the examiner was right that she should have taken the righthand lane on exit to minimise danger and allow more space for other traffic.From your diagram, she should have got over to the outside (ie left hand lane) of the roundabout much earlier than shown. She was a danger to the cars in the pink route, who would not expect to give way to her crossing them to get out of the roundabout.0 -
No, she moved over to the outside lane sooner than my quick sketch suggests, but the examiner says she moved over too soon and should have remained in the inside lane even longer!!!0
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Her instructor kinda umm'd and ahh'd after the test and said they would practice it more.
As an ex instructor I would suggest she changes instructor to someone that explains the correct lane to be in when exiting a roundabout.
Looking at that diagram she was in the wrong lane on the roundabout to leave at that exit, she should have been in the left hand lane on the roundabout before the junction where the pink cars where entering the roundabout, by staying in the right hand lane and then cutting across she made what would be considered in the examiners judgement a 'dangerous manoeuvre' which constitutes a fail.
On the information shown in the diagram I would also have failed them had they done that on a mock test, it does not matter whether there was any other vehicles present, the examiner is looking that she knows the correct way to negotiate a roundabout and would not possibly cause an accident had there been other vehicles present.0 -
No, she moved over to the outside lane sooner than my quick sketch suggests, but the examiner says she moved over too soon and should have remained in the inside lane even longer!!!
You were not there, so how do you know for sure what happened, get over it, get a decent instructor for your GF, obviously the one that she has, is not much good.0 -
No, you said that you can appeal a " fail " decision, nobody can change that decision, so a free retest would not be given.
The only time a free retest would be given would be if a test wasn't conducted in accordance with the regulations.
What I meant was that a test result resulting in a fail, as opposed to a pass, could be appealed.
Who would want to appeal a test that resulted in a pass anyway? That really would be futile.
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