Driving Test FAIL - Appealing the result - Anyone tried/succeeded ?

Evilm

Yes he can appeal. They probably won't uphold it but if they do He will get a free retest but cannot be sure he won't get the same examiner again.

lynzpower

good question.

I have passed my driving test by the way but dont own a car but often hire.

Am I supposed to do emergency stops for birds on the road?

aliasojo

The thread was started back in November. OP what was the outcome, did he appeal?

jackieb

badgerhead wrote: »

if im honest would i carry out an emergency stop on a country road for a pheasant? When ive got kids in the back? no, id come off the gas and if the road were clear nudge to right a bit , but i reckon its more dangerous to slam the brakes on.

yeah sure when youre on your test things are different. but in reality thats !!!!!!!!. anyways road kill tastes nice. peace

I hit one. I only managed to slow down to about 50mph by the time I hit it. There's no way I would've attempted an emergency stop for a bird. I hit a deer on Sunday and barely managed to slow down at all. I would brake harder for a deer than a pheasant though. A split second later and the deer would have ran into the passenger door, but as it was, it just jumped over a fence and I had no chance of avoiding it. I know of someone who was killed when he hit a cow in the dark.

I think the OP's nephew failed as he never had any reaction. If he was right upon it, it would be understandable, but as the examinar obviously saw it from a distance and he did react I don't think the learner driver has any recourse.

N3WLIFE

badgerhead wrote: »

if im honest would i carry out an emergency stop on a country road for a pheasant? When ive got kids in the back? no, id come off the gas and if the road were clear nudge to right a bit , but i reckon its more dangerous to slam the brakes on.

yeah sure when youre on your test things are different. but in reality thats !!!!!!!!. anyways road kill tastes nice. peace

I totally agree, I wouldnt be too ready to stop either, depending on how close it was to the car, and if anyone was following me closely behind....................Would there even be anytime for OPs nephew to look in the rearview mirror first??? And if he did do that before breaking in such an emergency-I bet he would have failed anyway................

Inactive

None of us were there, including the OP, so none of us know the full details of the situation.

It is no doubt history now, this thread was started last year.

hubert_cumberdale

i would have thought applying the brakes for a pheasent is dangerous

the examiner risked loosing control for a bird had your son taken it upon himself to swerve as the examiner slammed the bakes on it would have been quite different with the potential of a serious crash.

i was follwoing a women who swerved into a tree and smashed her car to peices to avoid a squirrel
i normally just demolish phesants you just got to make sure you get to them before they take off or they brake your lights

bap98189

lynzpower wrote: »

good question.
I have passed my driving test by the way but dont own a car but often hire.
Am I supposed to do emergency stops for birds on the road?

If you think they are going to hit the car, it would be a sensible course of action, yes. Hit one at speed, and you can do damage to your car. My Dad hit a pheasant about 4 years ago and it caved in the windscreen. The laminate held the glass in pace, but it was shattered making it impossible to see through. OK he was doing 60mph at the time and not 40, but they weigh enough to damage your bodywork even at slower speeds.

OP, don't waste your time/money appealing. Something flew/ran in front of the car and your nephew didn't react to it. That's an immediate fail and quite rightly too.

And to everyone who seems to be arguing that stopping would be more dangerous than hitting the pheasant - what a load of rubbish. The whole point of an emergency stop is not to just slam on the brakes and skid to a halt, but to bring the car to a stop in a controlled manner.

hubert_cumberdale

just seems a stupid thing to do when the person applying the brakes doesnt have control of the steering wheel as well

it would have been a disaster if the examiner had pressed them hard enough to unload the back wheels while the guy doing the test panicked and swerved to avoid the pheasant.

wba31

hubert_cumberdale wrote: »

i would have thought applying the brakes for a pheasent is dangerous

the examiner risked loosing control for a bird had your son taken it upon himself to swerve as the examiner slammed the bakes on it would have been quite different with the potential of a serious crash.

i was follwoing a women who swerved into a tree and smashed her car to peices to avoid a squirrel
i normally just demolish phesants you just got to make sure you get to them before they take off or they brake your lights

I hit a pigeon a few months back, it kinda went under my car then hit something underneath. I didnt brake because car behind was a bit close. He got feathers and stuff (pigeon insides i reckon) all over his windscreen and had to stop, while angrily honking horn and flashing lights at me..

the alternative was to slam the anchors on, get hit from behind and possibly write off both cars, then claim off their insurance for my car and any injuries sustained in the collision as we were doing 50mph.