There was a road closure and the examiner didn't know the area.
What really surprises me is
Tina was at the wheel the whole time because examiners are not insured to drive the cars.Presumably because of some ludicrous false economy proposed by some Government bean-counter in a drive to cut the costs of red-tape and bureaucracy.
A friend from Uni - well, more of a friend-of-a-friend, Lucy (not Mad Lucy, Carcrash Lucy) took her drving tests when we were at Nottingham. The first time she caused a pile-up on the A52, which made it onto local radio. Although she escaped unscathed, she failed on the spot, and the examiner drove her back to the test centre.
She had the same examiner the second time around, and his heart sank when he saw Carcrash Lucy. Amazingly, she passed.
She then went to work for a large, international Essex-based car making company as a Management Accountant. One of the perks was getting to try out new cars. So she did, and managed to write off two cars with a combined value of £40,000 (fifteen years ago) with a combined total of less then a hundred miles on the clock.
Give someone a nickname like Carcrash Lucy, and be amazed at how they live up to it. Amazingly, she and Mad Lucy share a birthday, but were born a year apart.
