Turn in the Road

Learning the turn in the road manoeuvre is a vital skill to master not only for the Driving test but beyond, as most full licence holders use this manoeuvre in their everyday driving. There are several ways of doing this manoeuvre and you can discuss further with your Echo Driving Instructor during your practical driving lessons.

In the mean time we have given one example of how to do the turn in the road.

Step 1:

Use the POM routine

Prepare: into first gear, little gas, find biting point, keep feet still.

Observations: Make sure you take a 360 degree all round observations before the car moves, wait for any traffic to pass.

Move: Release hand break, steer briskly to the right until you have a full lock, making sure your speed is slow so that you can prepare to break on opposite side of the road. As you near about 1 metre from the opposite side of the road steer briskly to the left covering your breaks and make the car stop. Hand break on

Step 2:

Prepare: into reverse gear, little gas, find biting point, keep feet still.

Observations: Make sure you take a 360 degree all round observations before the car moves backwards and look mainly over your left shoulder, wait for any traffic to pass and if safe to do so….

Move: Release hand break, steer briskly to the left until you have a full lock, making sure your speed is slow so that you can prepare to break on opposite side of the road. As you near about 1 metre from the opposite side of the road steer briskly to the right covering your breaks and make the car stop. Hand break on

Step 3:

Prepare: into first gear, little gas, find biting point, keep feet still.

Observations: Make sure you take a 360 degree all round observations before the car moves, wait for any traffic to pass.

Move: Release hand break, steer right until you are in your normal driving position (1 metre from the kerb or parked cars), if it is safe gently give gas moving away.

Aurthor: Echo Driving School Tooting, Streatham, Balham