Do you know who unfortunate learner driver was?

By Michael MacLeod

A BLUNDERING learner driver caused dozens of residents from a street called PARK Terrace to be evacuated – when she drove into the side of a house during a botched three-point turn sparking a gas alert.

The woman driver’s prang burst a water pipe, flooding the street, and caused a gas pipe to rupture sparking panic.

Fire-fighters were scrambled to the scene and were forced to put out a birthday BBQ party quickly across the road for fear of explosion.

They later apologised for spoiling the party, but residents insisted the student driver was to blame for “lurching forward.”

Both the learner and the BSM instructor escaped unscathed and abandoned the Fiat 500 Pop car before fleeing to safety.

Almost 50,000 driving tests cancelled thanks to weather

By Cara Sulieman

INSTRUCTORS are working round the clock to clear a massive back-log of almost 50,000 cancelled driving tests which were wiped out by the arctic weather conditions.

Thousands of driving tests had to be cancelled across the UK since late last year as treacherous road conditions made it too dangerous and in some cases impossible to carry out.

The Driving Standards Agency has re-scheduled 47,500 practical exams due to snow and ice clogging up the road network and making it too dangerous for learner drivers.

Tests have been running as normally as possible during the big freeze, but the DSA started having a large national problem from December 21.

In Scotland alone a total of 4,766 tests have been cancelled, including car, bike and LGV learner drivers affected.