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Griffth Avenue Extension turning right towards Finglas

  • 14-09-2010 3:15pm
    #1
    richard2010
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 202 ✭✭


    Hello!

    I am looking for a bit of help here, I was on test recently and I was turning right from the Ballygall Road onto the Griffth Avenue Extension (heading for Finglas) (oppoisite where Joe Duffy Motors used to be) and car shot up on the inside on the oppoiste side of the junction due to a car turing right onto Griffth Avenue and as I didnt see it, I got a grade 3 for it which I thought is equally deserved as it could have caused an accident.

    SO, what would be the best practice in approaching this junction in the future? I don't want to wait there for an age because I'll more than likely be marked for progress (it seems to me that safety vs progress is a very thin during a driving test) I am of the opinion that I should wait for the light to amber and then move but then again I am unsure.

    Any help from yourselves or an ADI would be most welcome.

    Cheers!


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  • #2
    ADIDriving
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 834 ✭✭✭ADIDriving


    The idea is to get into the junction on the green light. Get into a position where you are not in the way of traffic going straight from the opposite side. This may mean creaping further over to the right then would be usual. Vehicles waiting to turn to their right from the other side may still block your view. If this happens you do simply have to wait until you can see that it is safe. If this means you don't clear the junction until the light is going amber and then red, so be it. You would not get a mark if it is not safe.

    You will get a lesser mark for progress then for lack of observation etc.

    This also happens in Raheny.

    There is a bit more at www.adidriving.ie/lessons


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