This guide – Incorrect Positioning When Turning Right At Junctions is part of my Top Reasons For Failing The Driving Test – UK series. Explaining the top 10 reasons people fail the car driving test in Great Britain.

You need to be a good driver to pass the driving test. This guide gives examples of the types of mistakes people make during their test.

45.9%pass rate between April 2019 and March 2020

The driving test pass rate was 45.9% between April 2019 and March 2020. Many people who failed their test made at least one of the mistakes explained in this guide.

Incorrect Positioning When Turning Right At Junctions

You must:

• be able to position the car as close to the centre of the road as is safe.
• Any mistakes you make in this area will be counted under the ‘Junctions – Turning right’ fault on your driving test result.

Positioning in the left-hand lane when turning right at a roundabout

When you need to turn right at a roundabout. You use the left-hand lane when it’s not appropriate, and continue around the roundabout in that lane. This causes confusion to several following vehicles.

Obstructing traffic when you wait to turn right

When you want to turn right into a minor road, you position your car too far to the left while you wait for oncoming traffic to clear. This causes severe delays to the following traffic on a road where it was wide enough for the traffic to pass you on the left.

When you want to turn right at the end of the road, you incorrectly position to the left

When you reach the end of a wide road with no road markings, you position in the left of your lane when you’re actually turning right.
Or when you are in a one-way street and you are asked to turn right and position on the left instead of the right therefore not reacting to the road markings.

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