COVID-19 - Temporary changes to the car and vocational driving test
- Matt Waterfall
- May 1, 2020
- 1 min read
Updated: May 2, 2020
From today (1 May 2020) the DVSA is making a temporary change to car and vocational emergency driving tests, to help reduce the spread of coronavirus (COVID-19).
What will change
DVSA examiners will end emergency tests early if a candidates commits:
a serious or dangerous fault
a total of 16 driver faults
This is to help reduce the amount of time the candidate and examiner spend in the vehicle, when the candidate has failed their test.
In these circumstances, the examiner will instruct the candidate to drive back to the test centre instead of continuing for the full time, before they tell the candidate they have failed.
Motorcycle module 2 tests will not be affected by this change.
Updated standard operating procedure
The DVSA have updated their emergency driving test standard operating procedure to include these changes.
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