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A Hamilton woman was left in tears after failing a full driver’s license test as soon as the testing officer opened the passenger door.
The reason? A dirty front seat in Letticia Pevy’s black Mazda multifunction vehicle. The licensing officer cited it as a Covid-19 risk.
Pevy said he was aware that a clean and tidy passenger seat for the test officer was a pre-test requirement and thought he had done a good enough job.
“I have five children and a dog, I admit that it will never be immaculate, but I thought it was clean enough. He wasn’t going to remove any of his clothes. “
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“As we progress through different levels of Covid-19 alert we are following strict health and safety procedures while conducting road tests,” Vehicle Testing New Zealand (VTNZ) said, but has given Pevy a voucher for a resit.
Forgetting to yield is the most common reason Kiwis fail their driving tests, accounting for a quarter of all transmitted immediate failures.
But besides making mistakes while driving, there are other ways to fail, and many of the students have been caught by those rules.
Earlier this year, a teenage girl had to retake her driving test after her instructor chose a route with road works that caused her to run out of time.
Nicole Muir, from Auckland, got stuck in a traffic jam while applying for her restricted license in June at Sylvia Park.
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Letticia Pevy needed her full license to work, but a “dirty seat” saw her fail before she started.
Eighteen-year-old Hunter Scott, also from Auckland, said he had failed his first restricted license test because of someone else.
“The first time I failed, the test officer was taking me back to the VTNZ as I had completed the entire test. Someone ran a red light and I had to brake suddenly. Doing so caused me to fail immediately,” Scott said.
In 2018, a teenager in Hamilton failed his test because the fuel light came on. 17-year-old Michael O’Brien had been in the 45-minute test for 20 minutes in his parents’ 2004 Honda Odyssey.
According to the test rules, a vehicle must have “enough fuel”, defined as “enough to get to the test site, complete the test, and then return home.”
But, after doing some research, O’Brien found that the fuel light comes on on a Honda Odyssey when 10 to 15 percent of gas remains in the tank. The owner’s product manual showed that 7-9 liters of fuel would allow 100 kilometers of travel.
“If our 65-liter tank had 10 percent, that’s 6.5l, more than the required amount. [to do the test, and get home], “he argued. VTNZ admitted that” in this case, the officer involved has made a mistake. “
HOW EXACTLY CAN A TEST FAIL?
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The seat of the Mazda MPV that saw Letticia Pevy fail her full driver’s license at Frankton VTNZ.
VTNZ describes two types of mistakes you can make when driving during a restricted driving test: critical or immediate failures.
A critical error is a serious driving error that does not pose an immediate danger to any road user or property. You can make one critical error during stage one of the test and up to two critical errors during the entire test. More than that, you fail.
But even before the test begins, the test officer carries out some checks, which can catch potential drivers.
They should see the applicant’s learner’s license to make sure it’s up to date and confirm their identity, and they should check the vehicle.
The test could be canceled if you don’t have a current WOF or rego, don’t have your learning plates displayed correctly, or don’t have enough fuel.
You will also need a “clean and tidy passenger seat for the test officer.”
You need your glasses or contact lenses, if you wear them, and in some circumstances, a medical certificate.
The vehicle also has to check its fitness to drive. If it is not considered roadworthy, the test will not continue.
CRITICAL ERRORS:
– Driving too slow. This includes taking more than 5 seconds to advance where there is ample opportunity to do so.
– Driving too fast. You must stay within the speed limit and drive at a speed appropriate to the conditions during the test.
– Do not look.
– Do not signal.
– Blocking a pedestrian crossing.
– Assembling the curb.
– Market Stall.
– Incomplete stop at a stop sign.
– Another illegal action. This includes serious errors that do not cause immediate danger to other road users or property. Common examples include turning corners and taking the wrong lane on roads with two or more lanes each way.
IMMEDIATE FAILURE ERRORS:
An immediate failure error is any driving that results in immediate danger to any user of the road or property. Make one of these and it’s over.
Intervention. This means that the evidence officer has to do something or say something to prevent something dangerous from happening (for example, to avoid a crash).
– Failure to comply with the instruction.
– Collision. With an object, the sidewalk, a vehicle or other road user. An exception is if another road user is completely at fault.
– Failure to yield. Failure to yield anywhere, not just yield signs, is an immediate failure error. So make sure you know the rules of giving in!
– Excess speed.
– Stopping in a dangerous position. Examples include: at crosswalks, at intersections at railroad crossings, and parts of the road marked with “no-stop” yellow cross lines.
– Do not stop.
– Any other dangerous action. This means anything else that causes immediate danger to road users or property.
