Recorded driving-test fault categories
Maintain progess - speed accounts for 7.5% of recorded faults in April 2025 - March 2026.
serious + dangerous
15.1%
Of everything marked in April 2025 - March 2026 — one of these fails the test outright
top category share
7.5%
Maintain progress - speed
driving (minor) share
84.9%
Only fail you at 16 or more in one test
How faults are marked
Every mark is serious, dangerous, or a driving (minor) fault. Shares of everything marked in April 2025 - March 2026.
- Serious · 1,657,392
- Dangerous · 150,495
- Driving · 10,127,878
Named categories
Raw counts across every severity.
| Fault | Serious | Dangerous | Driving | All |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Maintain progress - speed | 66,510 | 234 | 825,285 | 892,029 |
| Move off - safely | 80,908 | 5,259 | 754,954 | 841,121 |
| Control - steering | 72,245 | 16,345 | 705,040 | 793,630 |
| Maintain progress - undue hesitation | 46,434 | 260 | 712,001 | 758,695 |
| Junctions - observation | 186,699 | 34,135 | 420,339 | 641,173 |
| Move off - control | 48,090 | 4,069 | 522,518 | 574,677 |
| Mirrors - change direction | 143,020 | 23,707 | 314,357 | 481,084 |
| Reverse park - Control | 57,731 | 3,284 | 365,334 | 426,349 |
| Mirrors - signalling | 7,519 | 11 | 397,969 | 405,499 |
| Positioning - normal driving | 69,987 | 3,195 | 330,251 | 403,433 |
Recorded fault categories
These are faults recorded, not failed tests or people: more than one fault can be recorded in a test.
Category shares use the published fault-count total for the same financial-year record.
Recorded fault counts describe the available published data and do not predict an individual test result.