Top 10 reasons people fail their driving test in the UK

here are the 10 most common reasons why people fail the UK driving test number 1 which is normally number 1 most years is observations at junctions and if you fail because of observations at junctions that basically means you haven't taken enough care to look to see who's coming before you've gone normally this happens because you're coming into the junction too fast and as you're coming in too quickly you haven't given yourself enough time to look left or right or both or it could just be that the junction has poor visibility and you can't see very well and you've set off without edging forward slightly to improve your view you could also fail for observations at junctions if you decide to pull out in front of somebody so if you can see someone is coming and you decide to go and you make them break depending on how much you make them break that could be a driver fault or a serious driver fault if it's a serious driver fault because you've made them break a lot you will fail if you've only made them break a little bit you will most likely still pass unless you repeatedly do that whether or not you do fail for making someone break comes down to the examiner it's up to them to decide how much you made that car break if they think you've made them break too much they will fail you but if they think that it wasn't too much for a problem or it wasn't too unsafe they will still pass you also if someone has to brake for you but you couldn't see them coming when you set off that's not your fault they can't fail you for that for example let's say you're at a T Junction and that T Junction has a sharp bend further down the road and as you start to go no one's coming see the side of the go where no one's coming but after you start someone comes flying around the bend really quickly and then they have to brake for you well there's nothing you can do about that so don't worry the car just needs to slow down you won't fail for that and another reason that causes people to fail for their observations at junctions is just their observations getting old so the person driving on the test looks left and right to see if it's safe to go and then they stop looking left and right and they take a while to get moving there looks get old the situation changes and it was no longer safe and even if it was still safe if the examiner can see you haven't looked for a long time they may still fail you because they're aware of where you're looking and they know if there was someone coming it would have been a problem and number two the second most common reason for failing the UK driving test and that is checking your mirrors for changing your direction so if you're gonna turn to the left you should check your center and left mirror before you turn and if you're going to turn to the right you should check your centre and right mirror before you turn or go to the right most of the time not checking your mirrors before you change your direction it's just a minor fault or driving fault in the older days we used to call them minors now the devious a just like us to call them driver faults I still call them minors because they are kind of like a more minor fault and there used to be majors but we call major serious now but you don't fail for getting a driver fault it has to be a serious driver fault however if you went through the text rarely ever checking your mirrors you're going to be getting quite a few driver faults and normally they'll only let a maximum of five go in one particular area so if you don't check your centre right mirror before moving out to go around part cars say five times they would probably fail you for that however you could actually fail for missing the mirrors once if it was a really important mirror check for example you're on a dual carriageway you're in the left lane and you want to move to Lane two and you change lane without checking your mirrors that is a serious driver fault and you will fail for that the third most common reason for failing the UK driving test is steering control so there's quite a few ways you can fail the driving test for how you use the steering wheel it's not some normally to do with how you actually use the wheel though you don't have to keep your hands at 10:00 to 2:00 to pass the driving test if your hands were a little bit different they're not going to fail you you are supposed to keep both hands on the wheel where possible so if there's a small amount of time I don't know depends on the examiner really 30 seconds say where you're driving like this with your hand on the gear stick and you have a hand on the wheel they're probably going to give you a driver fault or a minor driver fault if that went on through long periods of time throughout most of the tests they're most likely going to fail you for only having one hand on the wheel you could also fail for having poor control of the steering wheel when you turn it so if you're turning it in your hands are getting twisted like this and you struggling to continue turning the wheel and as a result the car doesn't make the turn you will fail for that too you don't have to use the push/pull technique which is I turn my engine on take my hand break off so I can turn the wheel without putting too much strain on it this is the push-pull technique you don't have to do that to pass the driver test if you cross your arms over a little bit you're not gonna fail for that once upon a time maybe but I've been doing the job for 11 years now and that's certainly before my time even when I passed my test in 2004 you didn't have to do that it's just recommended although I do recommend avoiding crossing your hand over the wheel too much because that airbag goes off that's going to cause you some damage it's a hundred and twenty mile an hour impact your wrist into your head especially if you've got a watch on that's gonna hurt the wax on wax off method isn't acceptable not at least because you're only ever using one hand but you're not gripping the wheel so if you hit a hole in the road and the steering wheel jars to one side you haven't got grip of that wheel also don't let go of the wheel so that it's so straighten because again you're not holding the wheel and you need to have enough control over your steering wheel so that you are always turning the car exactly where to go it's not telling you where to go but as I said earlier how he used the wheel isn't actually normally the cause for the serious driver fault the third most likely reason people fail the driving test in the UK they also mark that box that steering control box because you fail to maintain proper positioning when you're doing a turn and they mark that down of steering so if you've got a difficult left bend to make or at the end of the road you're turning left and you start turning to go around the bend but you don't steer enough and you end up going really wide round the bend possibly on to the other side of the road they mark that as steering control because they think the reason why you got onto the wrong side of the road your lack of control over the wheel as opposed to your lack of perception of way should be in my experience that's normally the reason why people get that serious mark of steering control the fourth most common reason people fail the driving test is turning right at junctions when a driving examiner marks a driving test they have a section for junctions and in that section there is observations which have already mentioned as number one that's the first most common reason people fail the UK driving test they also have turning left turning right and I can't think now what's the other one they have approach speed that's it approach speed so they're the different boxes they can tick so if you fail four junctions turning right it's not going to be because your approach speed is wrong because they have a different box for that it's not going to be because your observations were wrong again they have a different box for that it's going to be something specific about turning right in my experience the reason why people normally fail for turning right or junctions turning right they get that box ticked is more to do with their position so they don't use the Box in the middle very well when you're turning right that waiting area you get when you wait in the turn right or they wait too far forwards which means it's very difficult to get into your road and you might have to swan neck or possibly get close to hitting or even hit the kerb they wait too early which is misleading because if you wait too early people in the side road that you're turning into are gonna think you're giving way and that's going to encourage them to put out in front of you which causes danger sometimes people fail for this one when they wait too far to the right so they actually wait in the wrong side of the road for oncoming cars which of course means you're waiting in the way and another thing that can be a problem is when you decide to turn right there's pedestrians crossing the road you're turning into and you end up stopping blocking the main road that's not where you want to be waiting and one last thing I can currently think of is waiting too much to left again it's all about position so if you're turning right but you position yourself to the left of the road people again they get confused it's going to be very misleading people might even be tempted to overtake you as you're turning right because it looks like your Park you've waited over to the left that looks like you've parked something behind whatsoever take you just as you want to turn right that's not very safe you don't want to be given the impression that you're parking when you're planning to turn right and the fifth most common reason why people fail the UK driving test is move off safely and that's pretty much always going to be because of one of two things the first thing being ineffective observations so you're not checking around properly before you move away you don't check your blind spot you only get a minor if you don't check your blind spot unless there's someone currently there then it would be a serious but if you don't check your blind spot multiple times that would become a serious fault or a fail anyway and the other main reason why people fail for move off safely is simply because of poor decisions so they think they can make it before the car behind is well catches up with them they go to move away and the car behind has to break well their observations get old they think oh yay look far away by the time they get moving the car behind is actually quite close now and has had to brake for them but also it's not just cars behind it's cars in front that causes this problem too and that's probably one of the more likely reasons because you're not expecting it as if you've got a part car in front of you and you've got to do the angle start when you move away when there's a car in front of you you've gotta go onto the other side of the road so you need to think about people coming towards you as well as people coming from behind you if you don't have a parked car in front of you but oncoming cars are currently using your side of the road you're not driving you're not in play you're parked so you should give them priority first you can't drive at them and make them slam on the brakes you've got to let them pass the parked cars first and get back to this side of the road or wait until no-one's coming before you set off now for the sixth most common reason and that is response to traffic lights it could be quite easy there's many reasons why you could fail for not responding to traffic lights properly I think the most likely reason is the lights go amber when you're too close and you slam on the brakes too sharply when you should have probably carried on or the opposite you the lights go amber when you think you don't have time to stop but you do and you end up going over a red light or the examiner has to use the brake to stop you're going over a red light one that you probably don't expect but this happens more than you might probably think and that is stopping at a green light because if you're at traffic lights and you're getting bored and you start looking around you're not going to notice it go green and you'd be surprised how often that happens and if you're waiting at a green light that is a driving test fail another reason for failing your test because the traffic lights is when you're turning right at traffic lights when you're turning white traffic lights hopefully you know that you need to wait in the middle if you've got a green light and you're turning right you need to wait in the middle of the junction for oncoming cars because you're using their side of the road and traffic lights work in pairs and they've got a green light at the same time as you but if you've got a green arrow to the right the oncoming cars are gonna have a red light therefore you can go so if you're waiting in the middle with a green arrow you would also fail because of in effect you're waiting at a green light again and their seventh most common reason is move off control number five was move off safely that's about observations and making sure you don't make anyone break and then move off control is how you deal with the car when you move away does the car roll back during the angle start do you shoot forwards and nearly hit the car in front it's quite simple that one really do you move away with good control or there's a car roll back or shoot forwards out of control if you fail four move off control it was most likely because you were on a hill and you rolled back too much I say too much because the examiners do have a bit of tolerance for how much you roll back how much they'll allow you to roll back before they fail you is completely down to them they if they feel how much you roll back was unsafe they'll fail you if they feel it wasn't very significant and is not going to cause you much trouble at all in your driving life then they'll still pass you number eight it's getting dark so I need to get this video wrapped up and that is positioning normal driving positioning normal driving so that means you have a bad position when you're driving down the road normally new drivers tend to be too much too left or they give oncoming cars too much space really they're too much to the right and they're getting too close to oncoming cars although that can happen when you're dealing with narrow roads try and take 50% of your gap when there's a car coming the other way if it is a very narrow road and there's no one coming the other way don't try and take 50% of the gap because that might have you in the hedge slightly on a narrow country road take as much space as you need until someone comes the other way then slow down and then try and half the road use half each and squeeze through at a lower speed especially if you're very near the bush you're only brushing up against branches and damaging your paintwork maybe even stop actually I just watched that back that clip and I said 50% of the gap that might be a bit misleading 50% of the road so it's a narrow road you take half you give the oncoming car the other if it's a really big car or a big truck maybe a bus then you might have to give them a little bit more but work together and try and be fair number nine nine that was ten that's nine response to signals road markings that's how it's written on the forum response to signals or response to yeahjust response to signals road markings from my memory and that basically means you haven't responded to a road marking let's say there's a give way line and you haven't noticed it I think that's one of the most important parts of learning to drive is to learn to read and follow the road you shouldn't be looking at err you should be looking mostly at RO because that's where most of the information is the signs as well but you need to know where you give way lines are especially across roads if you're to go across across roads without noticing that you need to give way that could be quite dangerous but basically you will fail if your response to road markings is either unsafe or illegal so if not responding to those road markings means your driving is illegal or unsafe you will fail for response to signals road markings and the tenth most common reason you may fail the UK driving test reverse Park Control and what they mean by control is is lack of accuracy or lack of control both they don't have an accuracy box so this put accuracy under control you could hit the kerb quite hardly we touch the kerb a little bit they'll probably let you off maybe roll down the hill the wrong way more than you want to or just not finish the manoeuvre properly that's why you'll fail for a verse park control in the statistics they don't specify what reverse Park they're talking about they don't say whether it's car park or Road which to you and me is Bay parking for the car park like a supermarket or any kind of car park and parallel parking for the road where you park alongside the kerb but another reason you could fail for reverse Park is observations that's different to control it doesn't make the top ten list but I would not be surprised if it's number 11 or number 12 or 13 maybe because a lot of people fail during the reverse park for not taking effective of observations and making sure it's safe to go backwards if you're practicing without an instructor make sure you have insurance get 20 pounds off via the link in the description to Collingwood who provides specialist learning insurance that allows you to practice in a friend or family members car without risking their no claims bonus if you want to insure your own car click on the link to confuse calm I have found that they have the widest selection of cheap insurers for young drivers so there's your top 10 really is getting dark now just about see me 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Length: 18min 41sec (1121 seconds)

Published: Mon Mar 16 2020