Reverse around corner: right of way question...

Wertz

I was out on some of the test routes earlier. One of the estates where there's the turnabout and corner reverse is a new estate.
Now where the corner you reverse around is, there is an end house on the near/driver's side who's driveway exits into the road right where you're in the middle of a manouveur.
While doing my reverse, the owner runs out, jumps in the car and starts reversing out...in this situation has he/she right of way?
I assume yes (I also assume they're pissed off with L plates cluttering their corner); but since I'm on the road and they aren't should it be they who yield to me? It's unlikely to affect me but there is a small chance and I don't want to get a mark up for it.
This thing is the only worry I have about the test really, since so many stories tell of fails for something that happens during it.
Thanks for any replies.

Mr. Presentable

Person on the road already has right of way.

Mr. Presentable

Wertz wrote: »

since so many stories tell of fails for something that happens during it.
Thanks for any replies.

Actually the failures will be for failing to react correctly. On my test I turned left onto a street to find a van coming at me on the wrong side. I stopped and checked around me for an escape - fortunately the van swung into a gateway and out of my way. The tester: "You weren't expecting that, were you?". He thought it was funny, but I was nearly wetting myself.....

Wertz

Right, so me stopping to allow them out was a no-no. (I was on my own, no instructor to clear it up for me). Just wnat to be prepped so that on the small chance it happens again that I continue and finish my manouveur...I'd assume a mark for progress if I yield to them when it's my RoW...

Wishbone Ash

Wertz wrote: »

I'd assume a mark for progress if I yield to them when it's my RoW...

But be careful - don't cause a collision because you have right of way! (reaction to hazards )

AckwelFoley

Due caution

Dont pull out unless there is nobody comming.


If the driver on the road sees a car that has started pulling out and is on the road, there is a responsibility of the car approaching to excercise due caution and take appropriate action.

Wishbone Ash

snyper wrote: »

Due caution

Dont pull out unless there is nobody comming.


If the driver on the road sees a car that has started pulling out and is on the road, there is a responsibility of the car approaching to excercise due caution and take appropriate action.

Wertz was enquiring about a situation whereby one has to reverse around a corner alongside a driveway from which a vehicle may emerge.

AckwelFoley

Wishbone Ash wrote: »

Wertz was enquiring about a situation whereby one has to reverse around a corner alongside a driveway from which a vehicle may emerge.

javaboy

In your test, you should probably stop and let the vehicle reverse out even though technically you have the right of way. The car reversing out of the driveway will probably finish its manoeuvre sooner than you anyway so it might be easier to let them out.

If you do continue reversing, make sure you that you let your tester know somehow that you have seen the hazard e.g. stop/slow down before continuing.

And remember that you will have to reverse far enough back so as not to block their driveway.

Wertz

That's probably good advice. I passed my test last week, got my new license this morning, so I can reverse around corners now how I bloody well like

Mr. Presentable

Well done! Now be careful out there, this next two years is your most vulnerable time.

jhegarty

Wertz wrote: »

That's probably good advice. I passed my test last week, got my new license this morning, so I can reverse around corners now how I bloody well like

I can't say that I have reversed around a corner once since the day of the test :rolleyes:

Wertz

jhegarty wrote: »

I can't say that I have reversed around a corner once since the day of the test :rolleyes:

That's the real joke of it...I'll likely do that a few times in my driving career (if even).
But I'll do thousands of motorway miles and am now licensed to do them legally....yet I've never proved that I have even the first clue how to use them safely, bar IDing a few signs and answering a couple of questions. The one part of my test route where I got 5th gear/100kmph was about 400 yds of single lane bi-flow road before it was back down to 50kmph....

Fortuately I've been schooling myself in the art of motorway use for most of my L-plated period.
Ironically enough, I was on them legally for the first time last sunday and some arsehole in a northern reg Jeep Cherokee almost killed me after cutting me up while I was in his blindspot trying to overtake. Scared the sh*t out of me, but I was half expecting it and managed to brake and cut into the r'hand rumble strip/median.
It turned out the guy was moving out to allow a car to merge from an on-ramp ( I couldn't see that though as I was trying to overtake him while he seemingly accelerated)...all he had to do was look over his shoulder, hell all he had to do was remember I was there since I was there 10 seconds before that and he could have simpled braked to aloow the merge...but no, he owns the road and can do as he pleases. His vehilce weighed at least twice as much as mine....I'd have been toast. Guy wasn't young either...I laid on the horn as I got past, he waved his apology. Should have reported him but nothing happens to NI drivers...that's why they do as they please on our roads.

Wishbone Ash

jhegarty wrote: »

I can't say that I have reversed around a corner once since the day of the test :rolleyes:

Wertz wrote: »

That's the real joke of it....

The reverse around a corner manoeuvre is used to assess your observational skills, spatial awareness and right of way knowledge while maintaining complete control over your vehicle using the accelerator, clutch, footbrake, parking brake and the steering wheel.

Whether or not you ever have to do it again is irrelevant.

(I regularly have to reverse around corners though! )