I saw a prog' on TV yesterday that talked about taking a driving test in the Scilly Isles. The main island has only 3 roads, totaling 8 miles in lenght.
A read too that you can take a test on Barra {in the Outer Hebs}, only 1 road - about 6 miles in lenght, mainly single track.
Passing your test test in either location is the same as passing elsewhere in the UK, How can this be safe for mainland roads?
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i know where i should have gone now, as it took me 4 times to pass my test.
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Who would have thought it?
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Lovely place, Barra, we have happy memories. You can go from Castlebay right round, I guess it is about 12 miles, with a spur at the North end. If anyone, local anyway, was in motoring trouble (probably an "off" due to over ambition!) the "polis" (if necessary, like when a "foreigner" had been swapped for the broken in local) would be sent on a goose chase round the other way while all mucked in on the recovery!
Never got over 80, right enough, but that was with the old 1600cc short push rod Celica, in which our daughter got in her first driving experience when a beach was not in use as the airfield. Had to have the seat well forward.
Once the locals have learned to dodge each other I reckon they can manage anywhere; after all, from Mallaig they have to work up over a fair length of assorted roads before they get anywhere near a motorway.
A friend of mine was involved in bringing in the electric, and recovering a remaining bottle from that wreck.
Happy New Year,
Tomo
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The pass rate for driving tests varies from 28% at Wood Green in London, to around 70% at one of the quieter areas in Scotland. Test difficulty and pass rates are mainly effected by traffic densities, and short of using only one test centre for the whole country there is not much that can be done to alter the situation.
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There once was an examiner in Dundee who, having briefed a scooter aspirant on the usual circuit, leaped out for the emergency stop test in front of an identical, but another, scooter, and was knocked flat!
No comment, because ANYTHING gets ME into trouble!
Cheers,
Tomo
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its a shame it doesnt happen to the 'yellow peril' (thats what we call traffic wardens)
(obviously i dont mean for them to be hurt, i just mean so that they get a good shock)
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You do not have a licence how would you know
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if i dont have a licence, then i will be just like you wont i.
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Old tale, probably urban myth
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About ten years agothe motorcycle test in Northern Ireland used to be the old 'ride around the block' type with the examiner legging it from corner to corner keeping an eye on you. The beauty of it was that the two/threee part test had been operative elsewhere for quite a few years. Go over there, pass, and DVLA would update the normal mainland license as if you'd passed here.
Less effort, same result.
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Tomo
Re jumping out in front of the wrong scooter.
Frank Spencer - some Mothers do have 'em - used that one in the 70s
Paul
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The event related was in the sixties, and I don't think Frank Spencer had much to do with Dundee.
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MY motorbike test in 1957 was abandoned when it started to snow. THe examiner said "I don't think we'd better try the emergency stop - let's get in the warm and I'll write out your pass certificate".
Being abroad many years I actually didn't take my car test till 1993. I did it in N.Wales and it was a breeze: a package deal of 5 days with accommodation plus test. Very pleasant holiday too, with the driving school owner saying don't worry no one's ever failed yet. I doubt very much if I would have passed so easily in a major city. I've never been able to reverse for toffee anyway.
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On his test, my father had to do an emergency stop because someone fell off the platform of a bus in front of him.
Trouble was, the examiner wasn't ready and, before seatbelts were standard, nearly went through the windscreen.
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When I took a Saudia Arabian test I went to a school very early in the morning for five days and learned all about starter motors etc on the fourth day we had to park a car between parked cars about 100mts apart without hitting them.That was the test and if we had been busy that day you could send somebody in your place.On the Jeddah bypass it was not unusual to see 12 year olds and younger driving saudi fiestas( Caprice classics) at over 100 mph
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Here buying licenses is part of life - and death.
There was a horrific crash here on Sunday - details below.
Yes, 120 people! this was a flatbed - not an artic!
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Forty-seven members of the Cheko family were killed and several others seriously injured when a truck they were travelling in overturned in Roossenekal, Mpumalanga, on Sunday night, police reported on Monday.
Captain Malculm Mokomene said the truck, carrying about 120 people, overturned after the driver lost control of the vehicle around 8pm.
He said the victims were on their way to an annual family gathering when the accident occurred.
"According to witnesses the driver of the truck tried to change gears, but failed. He then attempted to apply the brakes, causing the vehicle to overturn," Mokomene said.
The injured were taken to Middelburg, Witbank, Belfast and Groblersdal hospitals in a seriously condition.
The driver of the truck was slightly injured, Mokomene said. - Sapa
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