Hull driving test centre

Mini-roundabouts are the defining feature. There are 19 of them in the streets around the centre against only four conventional named islands, Roebank, Southcoates, Mytongate and the one on Margaret Moxon Way. On the practice loops on this page the counts run from seven to 15 per loop. A mini is not a formality: the signal for the exit, the look to the right and the discipline of steering round the painted circle rather than over it are all being marked, and doing it well fifteen times in a row is harder than doing it once.

Traffic lights come almost as often. There are 67 signalled junctions in the area, so a route strings together lights and minis with very little plain road between them. The faults this produces are creeping over a stop line, being in the wrong gear when a light changes early, and losing the exit lane on a roundabout because the next junction is already in view.

Speeds stay low. About two-thirds of the roads mapped near the centre are 30 mph and a third are 20, with only a sliver at 40. There is dual carriageway within reach on the A63 and A1033 for the longer routes, but the bulk of a Hull test is town driving at town speeds. The risk is drifting a few miles an hour over a 20 limit, not anything dramatic.

Forty-nine schools sit inside the area the loops cover, so a mid-afternoon slot brings parked cars, buses and children crossing. Manoeuvres are usually asked for on the residential streets off Leads Road and West Carr Lane, where kerbs are straight and there is parking on one side.