Kameron Beuzard's car had moved only a few inches but he was on his way to failing his driving test at the Bureau of Motor Vehicles' Hilltop center last week. Kameron Beuzard's car had moved only a few inches but he was on his way to failing his driving test at the Bureau of Motor Vehicles' Hilltop center last week. He had backed out of a tight parking spot and didn't initially notice an oncoming car on the lot. The tester told him to stop, and he lost points.

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The parking lot at the joint Department of Public Safety/Ohio Department of Transportation facility looked like a shopping mall the day before Christmas: Cars and pedestrians crisscrossed the lot, coming and going in a hurry. The Hilltop location is the BMV's busiest testing station in the state. Last year, it gave almost 40,000 written passenger-car tests, more than 14,000 maneuverability tests, more than 13,000 driving tests and thousands of other commercial, motorcycle and moped tests.

It's not the easiest place to pass a test, a Dispatch analysis of state records found. About 17 percent of people failed the passenger-car driving test at the Hilltop center.

Only 18 of 87 testing locations statewide had a higher failure rate. Circleville's was worst in central Ohio at 22 percent. Either the drivers are better or the testing is easier in Marysville, where only 6percent failed. Statewide last year, testing stations ran the gamut, according to a database of driving-test scores. None of the 25 people taking the driving test failed in tiny Napoleon, near Toledo.

About 32 percent failed in Barberton, near Akron, the highest rate in the state. What's causing the difference is anyone's guess, but the numbers show that your chances are better at smaller test sites. Where fewer than 1,000 driving tests were given last year, 6.9 percent failed. The failure rate almost doubled, to 13.4 percent, at sites giving between 1,000 and 4,999 tests. At the 16 stations administering more than 5,000 driving tests, where more than half of all tests were given, 16.4 percent failed. The environment surrounding each test site is going to be unique, said Thomas Hunter, spokesman for the Ohio Department of Public Safety. 'What you're going to find in Athens or Findlay is going to be completely different than what you're going to find in Columbus or Cincinnati,' Hunter said.

If someone believes they would have a better shot at passing the test at a location farther from where they live, they're free to go there, he said. 'That's the beauty of having the option of being able to go and test wherever you feel comfortable testing.' Mesha Baylis, a senior at Westland High School, knows about seven friends who failed driving tests at the Hilltop station. The 17-year-old passed on the first try at the Hilliard location, which friends told her was easier than the Hilltop. The statistics disagree: About 19 percent of would-be drivers failed in Hilliard, the third-highest rate in central Ohio. The word among Westland students is that getting out of the parking lot at the Hilltop site is harder than the actual road test, Baylis said. Serial Number Arctic Cat Snowmobile Windshields more.

Beuzard can attest to that. The 18-year-old Eastmoor High School senior hasn't made it out of the lot yet. During his test Thursday at the Hilltop site, Beuzard signaled and made a beautiful left-hand turn onto the road leading to Broad Street. One problem: He was on the wrong side of the four-lane road, having failed to recognize the snow-piled and tree-lined median.

'I didn't know what road to go into, because it looked really confusing,' Beuzard said. Last time he tried to earn his license, Beuzard failed the maneuverability test, in which students back through orange cones in a simulated parallel-parking maneuver. He passed that course Thursday and thought he was home free. He has to wait seven days before taking test No. His 30-year-old sister, Kelli Beuzard, earned her license at the now-closed Alum Creek Drive testing station. She said the roads there were far easier to negotiate than at the Hilltop.

Gambler 1971 Songs Pk Download. 'It definitely wasn't in a parking lot,' she said. 'He drives good. He's just a little nervous.'

Before the Alum Creek station closed last March, it was failing 5 percent of drivers, the smallest percentage in central Ohio. Justin Abudaggah, 16, of Hilliard, was practicing his driving Thursday with instructor Rod Hall, owner of First Drive Driving School in Hilliard. Hall keeps the same checklist with him that the state testers use: 2 points off for failing to use windshield wipers or defroster; 2 points off for spending too much time starting the engine; 2 points off for staying in the same gear too long; 10 points for speeding; 15 points for not yielding to a pedestrian.

Anyone getting a total of more than 25 points off fails. Then there are the violations that mean immediate failure - crashing your car, a 'serious violation' or 'dangerous action.' Hall thinks it's good that teens younger than 18 must take driving school, with eight hours of on-road instruction, if they want a license.

Abudaggah will take his test Tuesday in Hilliard, even though 'one of my friends told me that the one in Newark is really easy,' he said. Hilliard's failure rate is more than twice that of Newark's, but 'I'm not really worried about it,' he said.