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Coming across a 'No Entry' sign in your driving test

I failed my driving test a few months back because (stupidly) I ran a no entry sign. Just didn't even notice it :frown:

Have another one booked, but want to know what I would normally do if I am approaching a no entry sign - stop the car a few yards in front and wait for further instruction?

Reply 1

Helen_199

Isn't it normally signposted? On my test I had a no entry sign but there was a one way arrow sign nearby telling me which way to go instead... Hopefully helpful, probably not, ask your driving instructor to be sure?

Reply 2

Mango24

14

Hattie.

stop the car a few yards in front and wait for further instruction?

I would say this, but double check with your instructor. It's all you can do really. He/She might have been just about to tell you to do a turn in the road?

Reply 3

Schleigg

18

Don't be such a robot!

Show that you have some common sense and assertiveness. Say that there is a no-entry sign there and ask whether your examiner would like to take a different route or just try and get around it yourself.

Reply 4

Tinsley

15

There are signs where I go which are no entry/no right turn etc, all you do is your own mirror signal or continue along a route which you are allowed to go. Obviously if its a dead end stop safely and wait for further instruction, but its like if thy want you to go straight ahead as opposed to left or right, they don't say anything, you just assume to continue in a route you are permitted to travel down.

Reply 5

Annie72

17

Schleigg

Don't be such a robot!

Show that you have some common sense and assertiveness. Say that there is a no-entry sign there and ask whether your examiner would like to take a different route or just try and get around it yourself.

This is what I would do tbh :smile:

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Reply 6

bananacake14

16

Ask your instructor to take you around all test routes and show you the no entry signs. My instructor told me if you come across a no entry sign in your test, you probs won't get anymore instructions and if there's only one road you can take then you've just gotta go down the only way you can go, if you get meee. But I didn't have a no entry sign on my test so I might be wrong, ask your instructor :smile:

Reply 7

BTCC Fan

7

There will be an alternitive route for you to take to avoid the no entry.

If there was a choice of a left or right turn your examiner will tell you which one to take.

Reply 8

Nevasleep

1

I'd refuse to go down there.
I think as long as you have a good reason for disobeying an instruction they can't fail you.

On my test I ended up in the wrong lane approaching a busy roundabout, so I just said something like "I'm going to take the third exit, as I'm in the wrong lane and don't feel I can safely move across", still passed.

Reply 9

rmhumphries

17

As long as you follow traffic signs / lane instructions and the likes, they can not penalise you for not following their instructions. (You won't make the instructor happy if you insist on not following their instructions though). So if there is a no entry sign ahead, usuallly you can only go one way. If you can go more than one way, pick a direction.

Reply 10

Dude Where's My Username

15

It's a driving test. They'll tell you where to go but they also expect you to have a little common sense. If they say nothing when the only route is a no entry sign or a u-turn, stop until they say something else. It would be stupid to keep driving.

Reply 11

Ice_Queen

17

Follow all signs etc.

An instructor cannot fail you for a) Having no sense of direction/navigation or b) Following all traffic directions.

Reply 12

Advisor

8

Hattie.

want to know what I would normally do if I am approaching a no entry sign - stop the car a few yards in front and wait for further instruction?

Is that what you would do if you were alone?

Like other posters have said, you should take the route you are legally allowed to. Don't just stop dead - this would be disastrous if you had following traffic all slamming on and swerving around you.

You're just going to have to plan ahead a lot further. In most situations where I've come across no entry signs, there is often a previous sign such as

or

or even a lane direction arrow in the form of a road marking on the ground. Look and you will see.

Reply 13

jacketpotato

20

I don't see how this could happen, unless you get led down a dead-end road where you have to do a U-turn, which is unlikely.

For example, if you are going down a road and straight-on is no entry but the road continues to the right, you continue to the right...

Reply 14

Riazj899

2

I just done the same today everything else was going so well

Reply 15

username5508856

15

Original post by Riazj899

I just done the same today everything else was going so well

This person has probably moved on from this by the way... it was 11 years ago.

I think general advice for people for driving tests is that it doesn't matter if you go the wrong way as long as you do it safely. If you come across a No Entry sign, just go in another direction, or if it's a dead-end, turn around. You don't need to wait for instructions and waiting in the middle of the road probably isn't safe.

Coming across a 'No Entry' sign in your driving test

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