Failed test for splashing...

Spunkey said:
WTF? So we're told not to swerve and just run over animals, but we should swerve around puddles.
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No, but you should slow down sufficiently so that any pedestrians on the pavement don't get splashed.

Presumably in the above situation this would have been possible to do, but she just carried on through it regardless. Deserved failure imo.
 
Spunkey said:
WTF? So we're told not to swerve and just run over animals, but we should swerve around puddles.

Top class logic there.
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Agree with that, but slowing down shouldn't be so hard on a residential area road where the limit will be 20 or 30?

I feel a bit sorry for the lass as it was obviously an accident. She should have paid more attention, though ;)
 
She shouldnt be hitting puddles at speed any way. she could aquaplane or find out that the puddle is due to a pot hole, causing damage and potentially an accident.
 
I failed my first test for this reason. I don't see this as news to be honest, lots of people fail their driving tests!
 
I'm afraid that is a rubbish bit of news. There was absolutely no call to swerve, she needed to just slow down a bit. And even if she did splash the pedestrian, she should have noticed and at least wanted to say sorry. I bet if she had said to the examiner that she wanted to go back and see him, then it would have been fine, and she would have probably passed.
 
Deserved failure.

...everyone knows that after splashing someone at a bus stop your meant to pull over and shout "get a car, moron" then smoke the tyres up as you pull away. It amazes me that people lack this basic knowledge on the rules of the road :(
 
Yep, should have slowed down.
Tbh though it's partly the councils fault for having such crappy road surfaces, it's gotta be a mightly puddle to drench someone.
 
lordrobs said:
Deserved failure.

...everyone knows that after splashing someone at a bus stop your meant to pull over and shout "get a car, moron" then smoke the tyres up as you pull away. It amazes me that people lack this basic knowledge on the rules of the road :(
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ROFL :D
 
Ahahah lordrobs, top reply.

I heard this on the radio when I was making a brew, too - and just thought "And?" - it's against the rules, displays no consideration to passing pedestrians and a lack of common sense. Who knows what lies beneath!
 
Spunkey said:
WTF? So we're told not to swerve and just run over animals, but we should swerve around puddles.

Top class logic there.
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Surely the logical thing would be to slow down? I'm not saying we all do it and I know I've swerved on country lanes rather than slown down but under test conditions you have to go by the book.

This isn't really news tbh, shame on the BBC for reporting on it.
 
I love how she's so caught up in her own indignation that she fails to see that slowing down was even an option. Could be media spin but if she bothered to publicise the story at all she's amazingly naive, all we need now is the pedestrian to complain to the police, after all she's admitted her error to the national press and had a DSA official in the passenger seat at the time :)
 
Hah, my opinion: Silly woman. Also I would like Avalon's musings to occur.

"I couldn't swerve!"
"what are brakes?"

Bah.
 
I heard her on the radio earlier protesting that she didn't splash the person very much, as though that makes it ok.

She also admitted she didn't know there was anything wrong with splashing people.

I say she needs to read up on the highway code and be made to take the theory test again.
 
Spunkey said:
WTF? So we're told not to swerve and just run over animals, but we should swerve around puddles.

Top class logic there.
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She should be able to stop before the puddle safely, and then drive around the puddle when it was safe to do so.
 
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