More than 2,000 learner drivers complained about their driving test last year
More than 2,000 aggrieved learner drivers complained about their test last year, with one saying they were penalised for a person walking out in front of their car and another failed for having a tear in their insurance disc.
The Road Safety Authority (RSA) said there had been around 170 complaints each month in 2024 but that these made up less than one per cent of the total tests conducted.
One wrote of losing “all [their] confidence” after being failed on more than double the mistakes they had expected.
They wrote: “I feel I was tested very unfairly even getting a mark for someone walking out in front of the car and I was actually slowing before they done it … but no, apparently I reacted too late.”
Another detailed how they had deliberately kept an extra long distance between them and a horse-drawn carriage in front.
“I was [a] little far away [from it] for safety reasons but the examiner failed me for that reason as well,” they said.
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