Thursday, April 7, 2011
Learner driver rage
We have probably all had our bad days when learning to drive and might even have had a bad experience during the driving test too – going into the wrong lane at a roundabout, stalling at red lights – but one news report has exposed just how badly a driving test can go.
A driver, who was planning to take his test in his own car, was told by the instructor that the exam couldn’t go ahead because he had an electronically-operated handbrake, which is not allowed in a test vehicle.
Now, at this point the motorist could have sighed and felt a bit hard-done-by for the rest of the day – as most of us would have done after the test nerves reached an anticlimax.
However, instead of resigning himself to the situation, he flew into a rage and took the examiner on an anger-fueled drive from hell – breaking the speed limit and running red lights on a busy road – before the poor tester escaped from the vehicle on a side-road.
The road-rage candidate completed his unorthodox test route by accidentally hitting the examiner in the face with the car door as he sped away.
Could have gone better? Yes – yes it could.
Image by Chelsea(: via Flickr, under Creative Commons Licence
Labels: driving test, learner driver, roundabout
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posted by Fuse @ 9:06 AM 
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