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Dispute Failed Driving Test?
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according to the examiner when she exited the R/A her car should have been positioned towards the kerbline of the island on the right handside as she immediately left the R/A. (the blue line)
I think in her stress at learning of the failure she has misheard the examiner.
You must know that following the blue line is wrong, and dangerous!0 -
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No-one misunderstood you!
You and Inactive appear to have made a sterling attempt to do so!
(Why am I not surprised? :rolleyes:
I trust you don't hope to continue this pointless arguement on appeals regarding driving tests, because if so you're out of luck today.
) "Now to trolling as a concept. .... Personally, I've always found it a little sad that people choose to spend such a large proportion of their lives in this way but they do, and we have to deal with it." - MSE Forum Manager 6th July 20100 -
They do have an appeals process but i dont know how far she would get, I thought about this when i got failed for not giving way to a bus! theres supposedly some rule that you always have to give way to public service vehicles no matter what... i searched the highway code but couldt find it.
I just re-booked and passed (making sure i gave way to every bus i came across!)0 -
As I said (maybe this time in terms that people can't misunderstand no matter how hard they try), you can appeal a test result where the test result was a fail on the grounds that the test was not conducted in accordance with the regulations
OK.
In which post did you say this?
We all must have missed it, and could only see the posts you made encouraging an appeal!0 -
...To help clarify, was it recorded as a serious error or a dangerous error?
Do you know kriss_boy? It could really help. It should be shown on the paperwork (but I realise the driving instructor might now hold this)"Now to trolling as a concept. .... Personally, I've always found it a little sad that people choose to spend such a large proportion of their lives in this way but they do, and we have to deal with it." - MSE Forum Manager 6th July 20100 -
I think in her stress at learning of the failure she has misheard the examiner.
You must know that following the blue line is wrong, and dangerous!
No I cant see how thats the case. Its a simple black/white decision, its not a matter of opinion.
Because the road she was exiting on is wide, the examiner has said she should have entered it on the right hand side.
But despite the road being wide it is not lined as two lanes nor signed to suggest that it is. Its just 1 lane wide but really wide at that point.
The examiner said she would be cutting (the pink cars) off by exiting it like she did rather than positioning the vehicle to the right hand side. (as though the examiner thinks there 2 vehicles side by side can exit at that point. they cant and dont.)
But like I say, its not meant to take 2 lanes of traffic that road as there is only 1 southbound lane and no signs or lines to suggest its 2 lanes that merge into 1.
My girlfriends binned the form but its it will be easy to find amoungst the rubbish outside as we've been on holiday for a few days so the bin hasnt been emptied and it'll be in bin bag near the top lol0 -
So what if you were driving a green car, and not intending to exit at the same exit the test car went off at.
There would be a collision as the driving test car cut across the inside (left hand lane) at the last minute.0 -
But the green cars have to give way to you.... so the gap for you to exit is formed when those cars stop to give way to their right prior to joining the roundabout.
Heres an actual photo of the roundabout. I put black lines to show the kerblines. The red is the path my gf took and the blue is what the instructor says you should do.
Which is utter nonsense.
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But the green cars have to give way to you.... so the gap for you to exit is formed when those cars stop to give way to their right prior to joining the roundabout.
Heres an actual photo of the roundabout. I put black lines to show the kerblines. The red is the path my gf took and the blue is what the instructor says you should do.
Which is utter nonsense.
That's probably worse.
Refer to highway code
and in particular rule 186
http://www.direct.gov.uk/en/TravelAndTransport/Highwaycode/DG_070338186
Signals and position.
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When taking an exit to the right or going full circle, unless signs or markings indicate otherwise- signal right and approach in the right-hand lane
- keep to the right on the roundabout until you need to change lanes to exit the roundabout
- signal left after you have passed the exit before the one you want
- select the appropriate lane on approach to the roundabout
- you should not normally need to signal on approach
- stay in this lane until you need to alter course to exit the roundabout
- signal left after you have passed the exit before the one you want
In your example, you have shown her changing lanes whilst still on the roundabout (i.e before she needed to do so to exit)"Now to trolling as a concept. .... Personally, I've always found it a little sad that people choose to spend such a large proportion of their lives in this way but they do, and we have to deal with it." - MSE Forum Manager 6th July 20100 -
*bangs head on wall*
The red line is meant to just be her exiting the roundabout, at a tangent to the inside lane that flows off down the exit... which is the correct proceedure.
The blue line is the examiners idea. Which is to continue slightly further around the roundabout and exit in an imaginery inside lane on the exit road....
Im right. The examiner is wrong. Its that simple.0
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