Which rule or section of the Highway Code has been broken here ?

Lum

When I'm a pedestrian, I'm looking for more signs than just an indicator before I step out in front of a car. I'd rather wait a couple of minutes longer than walk out in front of some plonker who knocked the indicator stalk while hunting for a CD in the passenger footwell.

reeac

OK then, say that you want to move out from a line of parked cars and the road behind is clear but then a car coming the other way decides to overtake another thus occupying "your" lane. If you have signalled then that car will have been warned of your intention. What each of you does next will depend on distances, speeds etc but at least you will both have been alerted - especially if the potential overtaker has also signalled his intention.

Norman_Castle

Thought I saw somewhere that you were not supposed to indicate to pull out into the traffic, because you should only pull out when the road is clear.

When joining traffic I think you should indicate that you are pulling out when you have decided it is safe to pull away, but not that you are waiting to pull out. Allthough in near stationary queuing traffic I view indicating as a request to pull out.

Strider590

I don't get this topic, what could the 3rd party possibly claim you did wrong?

BTW are you dealing with an OAP here? Because they can never make mistakes....... And yeah, you'll have to excuse me, i've got a bit of a chip on me today after one caused havoc on the ring road by not hearing/seeing an ambulance trying to get past them....

dggar

Mrs_Arcanum wrote: »

....... it does make sense to indicate. ........ Yet the test rules would dictate otherwise, is it any wonder some folk forget what indicators are for.

Do you have a source for this?

DaveF327

dggar wrote: »

Do you have a source for this?

Probably not, as everyone seems to have an opinion about driving tests, but not one based on actual fact or a reliable source.

Other than the legal test requirements (the regulations) which only stipulate test procedure and what should be tested, there isn't even a black and white set of "test rules" in the sense of driving procedure, as the driving test is merely an assessment of how one drives according to the law, the highway code and the "defined outcome" of events as laid down in DSA's Driving, the essential skills. If the highway code says "signal if necessary", then there is no blanket "you'll fail if you signal" or "you'll fail if you don't". Discretion will be used by the examiner, just as by a driver in the other seat.

As for the incident described by the OP, a driving test report would be marked with a "D" (dangerous fault) under "Move away safely". The legal offence committed would be driving without due care and attention contrary to section 3 of the 1988 RTA.