Son failed driving test.

patters78

annabanana82 said:

My Husband mounted the kerb on his driving test to avoid an accident, he still passed. 
Suggesting someone exceeds the speed limit as part of their driving test is not comparable to possibly needing to mount the kerb

And that was an emergency! hence the reason it was ok omg!

moneysavinghero

If unusual situations unsettle your son enough to affect their driving then maybe they are not ready to be out on the roads alone just yet.

strawb_shortcake

patters78 said:

annabanana82 said:

My Husband mounted the kerb on his driving test to avoid an accident, he still passed. 
Suggesting someone exceeds the speed limit as part of their driving test is not comparable to possibly needing to mount the kerb

And that was an emergency! hence the reason it was ok omg!

But the point is people can go on the kerb and still pass. Most experienced drivers would have taken the same action. Whether it's the right move during a driving test is debatable but there should be no direct correlation between going on the kerb and his reason for failing. 
Had he of failed for going on the kerb after being instructed to then there would be cause for complaint

AdrianC

Grumpy_chap said:

I am struggling to understand what action the OP would like from this.
The OP's son failed the test and accepts the reason for the fail.
At best, pursuing the issue about mounting the pavement would only seem possible to generate another reason for a fail.
Seems best to me to focus on the next test and not worry about what might have been.

I suspect the OP is trying to show that the son made the mistake that caused the fail because he was rattled by the examiner telling him to break the law...

However...

moneysavinghero said:

If unusual situations unsettle your son enough to affect their driving then maybe they are not ready to be out on the roads alone just yet.

"Road obstructed by stationary truck unloading" is not exactly an unusual situation, either.

cajef

patters78 said:

cajef said:

If the driving examiner instructed him to do it then providing reasonable care was taken he could not fail him on that, if however he had instructed him then failed him on that it would be a different matter.

How can you be testing somebody but make them do something that's illegal? providing my sons telling the truth
Hopefully I get to see a video of it later

You don't know the circumstances, if there was a hold up with traffic queuing and your son could not proceed or turn round and was causing a hold up then the examiner may have deemed it necessary to take the action he did, as always there are two sides to every story and dashcam footage is not going to prove anything apart from he went on the pavement to get round the obstacle, it would not change the result of the test.

comeandgo

I think your son will meet many situations in which he has to use his best judgment, sometimes the actions will be deemed illegal or against what is suggested in the Highway Code but it may be the better of the options.

jimjames

patters78 said:

annabanana82 said:

My Husband mounted the kerb on his driving test to avoid an accident, he still passed. 
Suggesting someone exceeds the speed limit as part of their driving test is not comparable to possibly needing to mount the kerb

And that was an emergency! hence the reason it was ok omg!

How do you know it was an emergency? You could wait for the accident to be cleared in the same way that you could wait for a lorry to be unloaded.

sheramber

annabanana82 said:

My Husband mounted the kerb on his driving test to avoid an accident, he still passed. 
Suggesting someone exceeds the speed limit as part of their driving test is not comparable to possibly needing to mount the kerb

Did he mount the kerb to avoid an accident happening?
Or did he mount he kerb to get passed an accident that had occurred earlier?

sheramber

I expect the driving examiner didn't want to spend the test time sitting waiting to get passed.

KimJongUn88

If he wasn’t instructed to mount the kerb, he still would have driven too close to the vehicle in front when joining the dual carriageway and still would have failed. It’s a moot point.