What is scary, and i've said this before, A young lad can pass his test at 17 in a Micra, driving around a small town. He can they go to his nearest car dealership and buy a high powered sports car, then onto the motorway.
Not a high powered sports car but just as lethal.
19 year old at work passed his test in a 1.2 Punto. First day into work after passsing he reversed into a bay and hit the office wall. Decides to park in opposite bay, pulls forward and smacked into iron railings. Result? 2 dented bumpers.
3 days later given the keys to a 3½ ton wagon and told to go and pick a motor up from a site approximatelt 15-18 miles away. Took over 2 hours!
Its now just over 3 months since he passed and has only driven a wagon sporadically in that time.
2 weeks ago was told to go to the first site he went to, 15-18 miles away.
Was driving a 2010 reg 3½ ton tipper wagon on hire as one of ours was in for major repairs. Took 3 hours, as he was coming in through the gates, (wide enough to get 2 cars side by side through), he crashed into the support stanchion! Reversed back a bit and caused a passing car to swerve out of the way. Pulled into the car park and thats when we noticed.
From the back edge of the off-side headlight, along the entire length of the vehicle a deep crease, not enough to split the metal but certainly to go down to bare metal. The side lights on the rear decking were dangling by a wire each and the front wheel had 3 of the 6 wheel nuts sheared off flush, (obviously the wheel hub dish was missing as well).
He claimed a big artic came too close on his left side when he was doing 70mph in the outside lane and he hit the central barrier.
We think he was twiddling with the radio. After all, whats an artic with trailer doing driving at 70mph when they are limited to 60?
I also asked him how he hit the barrier when there is a 3' grass verge between the outside lane 'rumble' strip and the central barrier.
His answer? It just happened.
