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Failing a driving test is never a nice thing to experience and it is certainly never a laughing matter. Well usually it's not a laughing matter. OK sometimes you just have to laugh. I mean, how can they be so daft? They've trained for months and this is the result...
Names have been changed to protect the stupid!!
Slip sliding away...
Carl was doing quite well. His manoeuvres went perfectly, his emergency stop was flawless, even his hill start was professionally carried out. However, things were about to go pear-shaped.
At 40mph on a dual-carriageway, the examiner asked Carl to "Take the next road on the left".
A simple enough request, except that Carl had convinced himself that because he was on a dual-carriageway, there must be a slip-road. Therefore he should maintain his current speed until he was clear of the main carriageway.
Good thinking. But not what his eyes should have told him!
As he entered the narrow side road at 40mph and started to slide with a heart-stopping screech of tyres, the fear started to set in.
The examiner reached over and somehow managed to regain control, bringing the car to a halt on the right hand pavement just short of number 43's nicely pruned roses.
They calmly walked back to the test centre where the examiner explained to me what had happened.
"Not to worry" he said, "All in a day's work."
Worrying, isn't it, when that's a normal day's work.
Sitting on the fence...
It was almost at the end of her driving test, when Gemma was asked to park the car in one of the available parking bays in the test centre car park.
Having already completed two manoeuvres successfully, she had only to pull into the space forwards and the test would surely be passed.
She turned the car and lined up perfectly with the bay, drove smoothly into the bay and... continued out of the back of the bay, over the grassed verge and on. Finally coming to rest with the front half of the car poking through a car shaped hole in the DSA's brand new boundary fence.
Phill
www.VirtualDrivingSchool.co.uk
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