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Failed Test for going through an Amber light?

  • 28-10-2014 10:10pm
    #1
    LpPepper
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 638 ✭✭✭


    Failed my test today for going through an AMBER light.

    Tallaght test centre, the right turn on Green hills Road at the Irish School. On approach, had green light and feeder, keep in mind it was lashing rain and a car was behind me, as I got to the lights they went amber and so I continued through as it would have been unsafe to stop.

    I only got 3 grade 2s other than this.

    Am I in the wrong?


Comments

  • #2
    solomafioso
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,095 ✭✭✭solomafioso


    LpPepper wrote: »
    ...so I continued through as it would have been unsafe to stop.

    Maybe the instructor / tester didn't see it that way and thought you had distance and time to slow down and stop?

    Chalk it up to experience for next time. Fair play for testing in that rain though!


  • #3
    Witcher
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 15,812 ✭✭✭✭Witcher


    Tester must have reckoned you could have stopped safely within the time frame you had to act.

    It's just one of those things that can happen in a test and it comes down to a difference in opinion but the tester's is the one that matters what it's said and done.

    Seems like you're on the way other than that so you should be grand for the next one.


  • #4
    LpPepper
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 638 ✭✭✭LpPepper


    solomafioso wrote: »
    Maybe the instructor / tester didn't see it that way and thought you had distance and time to slow down and stop?

    Chalk it up to experience for next time. Fair play for testing in that rain though!

    Well I had gotten to the white line when they went amber so was impossible to stop. Just so annoyed because I would have passed no problem other than that. if only I had left the centre 10 seconds later!

    Maybe they had a quota, who knows, re-applied for a cancellation anyway. Onwards and upwards!


  • #5
    mickdw
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 23,688 ✭✭✭✭mickdw


    LpPepper wrote: »
    Well I had gotten to the white line when they went amber so was impossible to stop. Just so annoyed because I would have passed no problem, if only I had left the centre 10 seconds later!

    Maybe they had a quota, who knows, re-applied for a cancellation anyway. Onwards and upwards!

    If your recollection is correct and you were in fact at the stop line when lights changed, the tester is a disgrace.
    I have a feeling that it was alot more borderline than that because I can't see a tester behaving like that. Perhaps he deemed your speed incorrect and that it caused you not to be able to navigate the junction safely. Don't get me wrong, either way its just one of those things that happen in a test and it came down to a matter of opinion.
    I remember my own test. Roadworks in the town and a gap just the width of the car presented itself. I had no problem driving through it but you never know is the tester going to judge that in a different manner and be of the opinion that you should wait. Passed anyway.


  • #6
    ProudDUB
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,569 ✭✭✭✭ProudDUB


    mickdw wrote: »
    I have a feeling that it was alot more borderline than that because I can't see a tester behaving like that. Perhaps he deemed your speed incorrect and that it caused you not to be able to navigate the junction safely.

    I'd agree with this. OP, I'd say your speed & your observations had a bearing here too. How long had the lights been green? Were there any pedestrians standing beside them, that may have pressed the button as you approached the lights? If the lights were green for a while, you should have been anticipating that a change may be imminent & been adjusting your speed as you approached them. If it was raining heavily, perhaps you shouldn't have been driving as fast as you were?

    If you add that all up, a driver that was paying better attention to the lights and was driving slower, would have been able to react to the lights changing and would have been able to stop in time, without having to worry about the car behind him hitting him.

    Am not accusing you of anything OP, just offering up possible things to ponder.


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  • #7
    Craftylee
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 429 ✭✭Craftylee


    This was always a gray area, I went through an amber on a pre-test with my instructor and he wasn't impressed. I believe you should always stop for a amber unless it would be considered unsafe to do so, aka going to fast / or breaking would cause the car behind to need to heavily brake to, or crash.

    Best advice is if you're approaching a light that's been green for a while lower your speed so you can stop.


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