No me, but when I was learning to drive HGVs another student put his lorry on top of someone’s garden wall in Westward Ho! They had to get a crane in to lift it off as I recall.
My biggest mistake was the usual, stalling several times and occasionally drfiting over the speed limit. Pretty boring really.
Massively misjudged a right turn across a big wide road leading to instructor stopping the car in the middle of the carriageway…. Had a complex about that area for months after passing and took to turning left, driving 3 minutes and doing a U turn on a roundabout for a while……
Mirror
Signal
Do a barrel roll
I reversed into donkey, I very hate to say this however donkey was ok
Not a lesson, but during my test I overtook what I thought was a line of approximately15 parked cars approaching some traffic lights. The examiner turned to me and said “what are you doing?!” Turns out the cars weren’t parked but also waiting at the traffic lights. I had to endure 15 sets of drivers jeering at me as they passed me stuck in the middle of the road when the lights went green. Needless to say, I failed…
Not really a mistake, but I had to pass my test as I’d got a job that took 3 hours to get to via public transport and my lift provider had left to get a new job. Probably would have ended my career had I not passed.
On the morning of my test, a mouse ran out from under the sofa when I was having breakfast. I tried to ignore it.
I was so nervous that when I showed the inspector how I would check the oil, I dropped the hood afterwards from such a height that the whole car bounced.
After that I calmed down, channeled my inner Colin McCrae and passed with 4 minors. Never saw a sign of a mouse at home again, so maybe it just popped in to wish me luck.
I accidentally sped to 88mph, then ended up in the 1950s, which was a bit annoying.
Did a lesson without my glasses. Couldn’t see shit.
Failed my first driving test by jumping a humpback bridge
My biggest mistake was picking a driving instructor without knowing anyone else who had used them. My first instructor used to scream at me for any mistake, from the very beginning when he knew I hadn’t had any other driving experience. As soon as I paid for 10 lessons in bulk he just became a dick.
When I told him I wasn’t going to get more lessons from him he tried to guilt trip me with a story about him having cancer some years back. Got a different instructor and learnt much faster.
I stopped on a roundabout on a moped to let cars on during my CBT when I was about 17..
I got asked to pull over shortly after
That could easily have been me on my second lesson.
Probably getting to the top of a 45 degree incline and my instructor asked me what I need to do so I can be stationary and pull off to the junction at a right hand turn by not having to use the brake. Obviously I need to pull up the handbrake but I had a huge brain fart. I came off the brake, the car wa stationary for about a millisecond and then we started going backwards very fast before he pulled up the handbrake and went a bit mental.
My instructor was alright. I did get the impression there was a definite element of wanting to rinse your cash, he put me in for a test extremely early for a ‘chance to get a feel for it’ when it wa songs some money spinning trick he used to get a big chunk of a lesson and car hire for the test.
I was approaching a roundabout that was under construction and stalled, then panicked and shot forward a metre or so. The car mounted the part built curb and then was unfortunately stuck, because the wheel was off the ground and the underside of the car in the curb. Some people stopped to help lift the car back up and it was directly opposite my 6th form. I have NEVER been so embarrassed!
Worst I did was follow my mother’s instructions to pull into a driveway to turn around. The driveway was flanked by stone walls and I misjudged how close I was, and tore part of the front bumper off the car backing out. Entirely cosmetic, fixed by my stepdad. If she hadn’t been yelling at me about missing a turn, I’d have picked a different driveway. Were some near misses averted by quick reflexes on my stepdad’s part when he was my copilot, though.
In my test, all going perfectly, began to enter a roundabout, all fine except some fucking mentalist was doing about 60mph on it, wasn’t visible when I looked for oncoming traffic. Test official had to use the breaks to save our lives as I did not react in time.
Scary as fuck.
Taking that new advert a bit too literally
Can’t park there, mate 😕
You can’t park there mate
Not me, but someone I know was taking a lesson and the instructor said “go straight over this roundabout”.
Guess what? She did. Literally straight over the roundabout.
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No me, but when I was learning to drive HGVs another student put his lorry on top of someone’s garden wall in Westward Ho! They had to get a crane in to lift it off as I recall.
My biggest mistake was the usual, stalling several times and occasionally drfiting over the speed limit. Pretty boring really.
Massively misjudged a right turn across a big wide road leading to instructor stopping the car in the middle of the carriageway…. Had a complex about that area for months after passing and took to turning left, driving 3 minutes and doing a U turn on a roundabout for a while……
Mirror
Signal
Do a barrel roll
I reversed into donkey, I very hate to say this however donkey was ok
Not a lesson, but during my test I overtook what I thought was a line of approximately15 parked cars approaching some traffic lights. The examiner turned to me and said “what are you doing?!” Turns out the cars weren’t parked but also waiting at the traffic lights. I had to endure 15 sets of drivers jeering at me as they passed me stuck in the middle of the road when the lights went green. Needless to say, I failed…
Not really a mistake, but I had to pass my test as I’d got a job that took 3 hours to get to via public transport and my lift provider had left to get a new job. Probably would have ended my career had I not passed.
On the morning of my test, a mouse ran out from under the sofa when I was having breakfast. I tried to ignore it.
I was so nervous that when I showed the inspector how I would check the oil, I dropped the hood afterwards from such a height that the whole car bounced.
After that I calmed down, channeled my inner Colin McCrae and passed with 4 minors. Never saw a sign of a mouse at home again, so maybe it just popped in to wish me luck.
I accidentally sped to 88mph, then ended up in the 1950s, which was a bit annoying.
Did a lesson without my glasses. Couldn’t see shit.
Failed my first driving test by jumping a humpback bridge
My biggest mistake was picking a driving instructor without knowing anyone else who had used them. My first instructor used to scream at me for any mistake, from the very beginning when he knew I hadn’t had any other driving experience. As soon as I paid for 10 lessons in bulk he just became a dick.
When I told him I wasn’t going to get more lessons from him he tried to guilt trip me with a story about him having cancer some years back. Got a different instructor and learnt much faster.
I stopped on a roundabout on a moped to let cars on during my CBT when I was about 17..
I got asked to pull over shortly after
That could easily have been me on my second lesson.
Probably getting to the top of a 45 degree incline and my instructor asked me what I need to do so I can be stationary and pull off to the junction at a right hand turn by not having to use the brake. Obviously I need to pull up the handbrake but I had a huge brain fart. I came off the brake, the car wa stationary for about a millisecond and then we started going backwards very fast before he pulled up the handbrake and went a bit mental.
My instructor was alright. I did get the impression there was a definite element of wanting to rinse your cash, he put me in for a test extremely early for a ‘chance to get a feel for it’ when it wa songs some money spinning trick he used to get a big chunk of a lesson and car hire for the test.
I was approaching a roundabout that was under construction and stalled, then panicked and shot forward a metre or so. The car mounted the part built curb and then was unfortunately stuck, because the wheel was off the ground and the underside of the car in the curb. Some people stopped to help lift the car back up and it was directly opposite my 6th form. I have NEVER been so embarrassed!
Worst I did was follow my mother’s instructions to pull into a driveway to turn around. The driveway was flanked by stone walls and I misjudged how close I was, and tore part of the front bumper off the car backing out. Entirely cosmetic, fixed by my stepdad. If she hadn’t been yelling at me about missing a turn, I’d have picked a different driveway. Were some near misses averted by quick reflexes on my stepdad’s part when he was my copilot, though.
In my test, all going perfectly, began to enter a roundabout, all fine except some fucking mentalist was doing about 60mph on it, wasn’t visible when I looked for oncoming traffic. Test official had to use the breaks to save our lives as I did not react in time.
Scary as fuck.
Taking that new advert a bit too literally
Can’t park there, mate 😕
You can’t park there mate
Not me, but someone I know was taking a lesson and the instructor said “go straight over this roundabout”.
Guess what? She did. Literally straight over the roundabout.