London, England - Nearly seven million British drivers think that if they had to take their driving test again, they would be likely to fail.
In a survey of 1000 qualified drivers by Young Driver, which provides driving lessons for 10-17 year olds, one in five (18 per cent) said they doubted their current driving skills would get them past an examiner – a figure which increased with age to peak at 24 per cent of over 65s.
About 28 percent of drivers have difficulty parallel parking and one in four say they try to avoid reversing into a car park bay - and for women drivers those figures go up to 36 and 30 percent respectively.
A quarter of all drivers (26 percent) said they regularly parked some distance from where they needed to be in order to get an ‘easier’ car parking space which didn’t require as much skill. One in six drivers (16 percent) admitted they often felt nervous when it came to parking - rising to one in four (26 percent) for 18-25 year olds.
And it seems it’s not just parking that causes issues - one in six (16 percent) admitted they struggled to complete a turn in the road without needing more than the traditional three-point turn.