Dispute Failed Driving Test?

cyclonebri1

flyingscotno1 wrote: »

Depends where your coming from and lane designations.

If you are turning right, taking the 3rd exit unless there is a marking making you do it, it is more natural to keep right hugging the centre island until the exit than change lanes half way around (unless it is a large interchange roundabout).

Similarly that white car is in the natural position if they were going straight across (2nd exit) the roundabout but had started in the nearside (left hand) lane. If the marking at that entrance had been left only on the nearside with ahead and right on the offside, it would be better to hug the centre island. Really depends on so many factors.

Doesn't depend where the car, (white), started from. The only view any car waiting to join has of a car on the roundabout is that that it can see, ie, the approach to the turn in question?????

YorkiePud_3

Have had a word with my Dad (Driving Instructor) and he said the best thing is ALWAYS to have your instructor sit in the back of the car.

You cannot talk to your instructor, nor him/her to you ... but if there are any issues which the Examiner fails you for (kind of knife edge things I mean, where it is just their interpretation of a situation), you at least then will have your instructor to give his or her opinion ... it's not just the Examiner against the Learner if you see what I mean.

A lot of decisions the Examiner makes can be very .... hhhmm .. how can I say? ... what the Examiner says he saw may be interpreted differently to anyone else.
Let's just say that the theory is that so many people pass, so many people fail ... it isn't how it should be. If you can show you can control the car, drive safely at all times and not be a danger on the road to anyone else, you should pass, but it doesn't always happen.

As Dad said, he advises ALL his pupils to ask for him to sit in the back ...some decisions that are made are so obviously wrong ... it's just someone to back you up afterwards.

flyingscotno1

cyclonebri1 wrote: »

Doesn't depend where the car, (white), started from. The only view any car waiting to join has of a car on the roundabout is that that it can see, ie, the approach to the turn in question?????

Yes, but correct positioning on a roundabout is dependant on where you joined the roundabout. People sneaking on is dealt with by a left mirror check.

cyclonebri1

flyingscotno1 wrote: »

Yes, but correct positioning on a roundabout is dependant on where you joined the roundabout. People sneaking on is dealt with by a left mirror check.

It would take 2 or 3 laps of the roundabout to get off if you gave people that much space around here:rotfl:

Barbara_L

my son failed yesterday. the examiner said 'although that was a perfect drive, you were 1.8 seconds behind the car on the dual carriageway, not 2.'
I'm so cross he failed on 0.2 seconds - the guy didn't even have a stopwatch!!

Hintza

Barbara_L wrote: »

my son failed yesterday. the examiner said 'although that was a perfect drive, you were 1.8 seconds behind the car on the dual carriageway, not 2.'
I'm so cross he failed on 0.2 seconds - the guy didn't even have a stopwatch!!

He will have been using the white lines. It doesn't really matter the examiner felt he was too close.

My son failed his driving test and then moans that the examiner has it in for boys. When you then quiz him on why he failed, I immediately agree with the examiner. Which then leads to the inevitable Kevin and PPerry moment.

His crime: speeding up as he approached a 40 limit (from a 30)......doh!

adouglasmhor

Premier wrote: »

You can appeal a driving test fail decision.

However, even if you win the appeal, the result will still stand ... but you might get a free retest

I complained on the spot to a driving test centre manager in Glasgow when I failed my motorcycle test for incorect use of gears in 1980, as I was riding a Honda CB400a on my test and it was one of the few automatic bikes on the road at the time and it had no gears I was given a pass certificate on the spot.

Hintza

As for original OP there is a roundabout near us which if I follow the instructions given by your GF examiner results in a near punch up with folk trying to get smart coming fast from one of the later entrancies to the roundabout and trying to overtake on the inside (lane) at the exit and it happens even if you are indicating correctly!

I_am_mad

Having failed my driving test 3 times before I passed I can see how annoyed your girlfriend is about failing, its heart breaking and also costs a hell of a lot to retake! But at the end of the day the examiner has the final say and if you fail you fail you cannot have that decision changed.

On 2 of my 3 occassions I had the same driving examiner and he failed me on things that I though were stupid, such as pulling out in front of a car which to me was miles away (not literally) but I know that I couldnt prove him wrong its just part of life, not everyone can pass first time.

If you take my first time for example I got 2 minors but could not paralell park to save my life, it completley threw me and all knowledge of ever doing this left me lol . But he did say to me he had had a lovely journey lol not much compensation to me.

At the end of the day op, I would tell your gf to move on and do another test, all this isnt going to get you anywhere.

RICK..._2

July just called, they want their thread back :rotfl: