Today, for the first time in my time as a driving instructor, one of my pupils had their driving test terminated by the examiner due to dangerous driving!

The pupil, who was not ready for his driving test decided to go ahead with it despite my concerns that he was not ready to drive un-supervised.

20 mins into the test, the examiner had to use the brakes to stop him going through a Pedestrian crossing on RED with a mother and her 3 children on the crossing!  He then said he was going to stop!  We then proceeded and at the next crossing, this time on green with no pedestrians in sight.  So what did he do?  He stopped suddenly (in a downpour) with a long tail of traffic behind.  The first 3 cars managed to stop, but the 4th vehicle, a motorcycle was not able to and crashed into the back of a car, causing serious damage to his bike.  Fortunately, he was ok.  We stopped, and made sure he was ok before the examiner decided he had seen enough.

The pupil has now been made aware he is not fit for test and more lessons are required.

Today I learnt a valuable lesson.

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