500 learner drivers crash during tests
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SOARING numbers of learner drivers are crashing during their tests, shock figures show.
Latest statistics show 510 rookies were involved in accidents while taking their 40-minute exams last year, up by a quarter on 408 in 2015. The figures also reveal that women fail more often than men for botching their reverse parking. Men flunk more frequently than women for going too fast.
But the most common reasons drivers of both sexes flop are not spotting risks at junctions or checking mirrors enough.
Records from the Driver and Vehicle Standards Agency show that two men and one woman took their test for the 15th time last year – and still failed.
One man and one woman each clocked up 12 faults classed as serious or even dangerous, including tailgating, failing to brake or change gear properly and misjudging crossings.
Any one of the faults recorded by the DVSA, which runs test centres, would warrant a fail. The figures come ahead of changes to the test which will see reversing round a corner and making a three-point turn no longer included.
AA president Edmund King said: “What someone might learn in two lessons could take someone else six. New drivers should only sit a test when both their instructor and they feel they are confident and competent.”