Test Centre: Wallasey
Reason for fail: Serious fault, Move off - Safely
This is the sort of road where an examiner might ask you to do an emergency stop. It's quiet. You can see a long way ahead and around.
The examiner asked Tim to do an emergency stop along this road. He gave the instruction, and Tim stopped promptly. The examiner then asked him to drive on. Tim got himself ready, and moved off. Unfortunately, a car was just starting to overtake him as he moved, and he hadn't checked around before releasing his handbrake.
So what observations should you make after doing an emergency stop?
You won't be parked at the side of the road. You'll be well away from the kerb. So it's important that you check that nothing is coming down your inside (a cyclist perhaps) and that nothing is overtaking you. Ideally you should look over both shoulders. Tim associated that blind spot check with moving away from the side of the road, but it also needs to happen here.
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