MisterMMM.com: Wrong lane white out!

June 15

We were on the ring road, heading east from the Stenson Road roundabout, and the examiner, said at the second set of lights to turn right. That would have taken us down Sinfin Lane towards the test centre. We were near the end of the test.

An instruction with 'right' in it, always sets the alarm bells ringing for me, because it might mean a lane change. We were on a bit where it splits from 1 lane in to 2, and then another appears on the right for the right turn.

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The driver didn't move over, didn't check mirrors or attempt to move across. As we got further along we were in the left-most of 3 lanes, and at this point the driver had checked mirrors and indicated to the left.

There was just enough time to get across, but the driver was so confused, that they had a white out instead, and just brought the car to a stop.

Of course stopping at a green light at a main junction on the ring road is a bad idea for traffic flow, and we had a load of people stopped behind.

The worst bit was actually, that there is no left turn at that junction anyway, so all in all, a real serious misunderstanding of the road layout. If they had realised there was no left turn, and just carried on, it would have been a variation of the test route, but no problem.

They failed because they hadn't understood the signs, and then blocked the road!