failing driving test question

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Please can you help clear up a heated discussion name changed though as pretty sure her mum is on here.

Daughters friend has unfortunately failed their driving test.

However, the friend is saying the only reason they failed is that someone else sounded their car horn at her (directed at the learner driver)

At the time this happened, the learner was in the left lane at a roundabout, with the intention of going straight on. A van came up on the right hand side lane and cut in ahead of the learner, and sounded his horn in annoyance.

The roundabout is new and has no road markings: you can only go left or straight on. (no right turn)

Would this be correct? Daughter fully believes this to be true, and google is no help.

@LadyDanburysHat

Interesting that others are saying she should have been in the inside lane to go straight ahead. There is a similar roundabout near us and my sons driving instructor told him the right hand lane was only for heading back the way you cam on the roundabout, and the outside lane should be used for left and straight ahead. Obviously that is not how anyone drives it in real life.

It also has no marked lanes or arrows on the road.

The right hand lane is the outside lane!

And that is how it should be driven. Left hand lane unless road markings and signage tells you differently.

www.highwaycodeuk.co.uk/roundabouts.html

Ignore the first sentence, it makes less sense written than it did in my head

Left hand lane, not inside lane. It's the inside / outside; fast / slow lane stuff that causes such mistakes. They are always left and right hand lanes.

Yes I should have said it as left and right lanes. Essentially DS was told to only use the left lane to go left or straight ahead.

I got undertaken on the approach to a roundabout on one of my driving tests, and failed because of it. My instructor said that what I did was absolutely fine on that roundabout but because my driving I
Impacted another driver, I failed.

It's the four S's - you're not allowed to make any other driver swerve, stop, slow down, or swear. If you do then you've interrupted the flow of traffic, potentially created a hazard, and the examiner would be looking to see if it was a minor fault or a major one depending on the situation.

@LadyDanburysHat

Yes I should have said it as left and right lanes. Essentially DS was told to only use the left lane to go left or straight ahead.

That makes far more sense

It sounds a bit mean spirited to be trying to prove a teen wrong for the reason she's given, OP.

I imagine she's had to wait months and months and months for this - what a massive disappointment for her, poor girl.

@PassTheDutchyUpYrLeftBackside

It sounds a bit mean spirited to be trying to prove a teen wrong for the reason she's given, OP.

I imagine she's had to wait months and months and months for this - what a massive disappointment for her, poor girl.

But if OP can't impress upon her that she is wrong she might make the same error again - and fail again!

@CuriousaboutSamphire it was her dd’s friend so I can see where @PassTheDutchyUpYrLeftBackside is coming from!

Its DD friend, so not really anything to do with me, I was more puzzled that she could fail by someone else sounding the horn at her, but it seems that she did! (like @Excited101)

Every days a learning day

Thanks for everybody's input - it will help DD as she no doubt will take that route on her test.

[quote Piggy42]**@CuriousaboutSamphire* it was her dd’s friend so I can see where @PassTheDutchyUpYrLeftBackside* is coming from![/quote]
Ah!

But she still needs to know, so she doesn't make the same error when she comes to take her own test [she says stubbornly 🙂 ]