Watch moment learner driver fails driving test for stopping at RED light – little known road law could catch you out too
THIS is the moment a learner driver failed her test for stopping at a red light thanks to a little-known road law.
A quirk of the Highway Code means you don’t actually have to follow one of the most basic principles of driving.
Driving instructor Aman, from Clear View Driving, posted a clip from a mock test to her YouTube channel to demonstrate the unusual loophole.
In the video, the unsuspecting student turns out of a T-junction onto a main road, only to be confronted with a set of traffic lights.
Since the lights were on red, she slowed to a controlled stop as she would usually be required to do.
In fact, in most other scenarios, she likely would have been given full marks for handling the lights perfectly.
However, an exception to the rule meant that she actually incurred a serious fault and would have instantly failed her test.
Aman explained: “Keep going, keep going.
“[The light] is not for us.
“This red light doesn’t apply to you.”
The student is clearly confused and questions the reason for the fault.
But Aman was, in fact, correct as the rules of the road do cover this exact scenario.
This is because the traffic lights the the learner came up against was a secondary set backing up one on the other side of the junction.
There was no solid white line marked at the lights, meaning cars that are already in the junction can pass through without stopping.
Likewise, if you turn onto the road using the junction, the red light doesn’t apply to you.
The light’s only purpose is to regulate the traffic already on the main road to avoid collisions with drivers entering the junction from other routes.
As soon as the lights with the solid line at the entry to the junction went green, she was allowed to go through the junction until she came up to another light with a solid stopping line.
It comes as thousands of drivers face a 70-mile diversion thanks to a major road being closed all week.