

Drivers are given three attempts before being failed but nearly 600 still couldn’t manage. You must be able to read a car number plate from 20 metres to meet the “standards of vision for driving”. Worryingly, 577 candidates failed the test before even getting behind the wheel due to not being able to complete the sight test. The most common serious or dangerous faults Rank #

Failing to observe at junctions was the cause of more than 40 per cent of failures in eight postcode areas, including Outer Hebrides (HS) Hemel Hempstead (HP) Motherwell (ML) Dumfries (DG) Harrogate (HG) Truro (TR) Taunton (TA) and Paisley (PA).īehind that and failing to use their mirrors, errors in turning right at a junction (77,590), losing control of steering (73,715) and ignoring traffic light signals (72,110) were the most common major faults.
