Flashed out of a junction on driving test - should you go?

[cornish]

I have been teaching my partners son to drive afer the past couple of months and he has done really well and has his test next week. He has had a few professional lessons with a local instructor who said he driving is good hence the test.

So we are out yesterday and at a particularly junction where we wanted to go right the car to our left stops and flashes to let us out. I tell him to wait as I was always told back in the 80’s when I learnt to drive that nobody has the authority to let you out other than the police. I was also told that if you do go and have a crash then it is your fault and saying that the other car flashed is no defense.

So we sit there for a while looking at the other car and it became apparent that the elderly gentleman was keen for us to go so eventually we did and he checked it was clear etc.

I asked the instructor and he said that we were right to go but I am not sure this is right. He came home tonight and said that he heard of someone at college who failed recently for going when flashed when they should have given way.

So my question to any driving instructors or anonymous examiners out there is what should you do?

My gut feel is to wait and say to the examiner that it is not your right of way and just wait.

Any advice would be greatly received.

[cornish]

Thanks for the replies everyone.

He passed today and luckily he was not in a situation where he was flashed out.

I can now hang up my driving instructor gloves as I am not going though all that again - I was more nervous than him.

Cheers

[cornish]

I am going to take him out on the motorway over the weekend but from his mum’s iPhone stalking I fear that it will not be his first time on the m5.