Teen Smashes Six Cars, Fails Driving Test

[illflem]

TORONTO (Reuters) - A teenager crashed into six cars and injured one person when she tried to park at the end of her driving test, Toronto police said on Thursday.



The driving instructor, who had been about to give the girl her driver's license, changed his mind after the accident, which happened on Wednesday in a suburb north of Toronto.



"They came back to the parking lot of the testing center and when they went to park the car, the car went out of control and it struck the vehicles and a pedestrian," said a police official.



After it hit the first four cars, the teen's vehicle spun around and hit two more vehicles.



A woman who was standing between two of the cars was taken to hospital with leg injuries.



An examiner who witnessed the crash said the teenager panicked while trying to park the car and hit the gas pedal instead of the brake.



The teen was hospitalized for minor leg injuries.



The driving instructor was treated for shock.



"He's back working today", the police spokesman said.

 

[Happy Camper]

I guess I am too dense. I can not understand how, how you can mistake the gas pedal for the brake!! Some one missed the tell tale signs of an immature driver who should not be allowed a drivers license until proven qualified. I'm off my stool now.

 

[DennyDay]

illflem - - In Tennessee she would have be given her license any way!!!!!

Denny

 

[swamp rat]

What C. D. said! ^

 

[Oasis-3]

Hit the GAS

Last week the guy across the road pulled down his drive way and went to stop at the road, he hit the gas insted of the break and went across the road and into the house on the other side. This is a brick house and the car went right through the wall and into a bed room. Know one in the bed room and know one hurt just something to see so close to home

Realy makes you think how many others like this are on the road



Cliff

 

[ETOBICOKE]

Drivers Test

This is the reason that they stopped doing on road tests in Ontario, too many exameners got a wild ride such as this. Now they get tested on a closed course, purpose built test area. Just wait until this girl gets in the middle of 20 lanes of highway 401, big bake sale! No fault insurance was invented for drivers like this.

Thanks to Cliff, I now know why my house insurance just went up 30%





Neil

 

[cbconway]

No Bull

Here in Atlanta we train young drivers on the perimeter highway (I-285). It's kind of like the Running of the Bulls in Spain. Those who survive get their license.

 

[Jff24Gordn]

Here in Atlanta we train young drivers on the perimeter highway (I-285). It's kind of like the Running of the Bulls in Spain. Those who survive get their license.

So is they whay there alot of crosses around I-85??



My first time behind the wheel in driverd ed, i peeled out. It was starting from a stop sign going up a hill onto a highway, and there was gravel on the pavement, and some how i managed to floor the gass. I didnt know escorts would lay rubber for 40'. i still managed to get my waiver so I didnt hafta take the driving test when i got my license.

 

[WOWZY]

When I was about 10yrs. old, I was helping my Father do the monthly starting of his 1911 Model T Torpedo Roadster. The car was in the Garage and as you know it has the old arm breaker crank lever up front. He asked me to hold the brake while he gave her a yank. Being the good son that I thought I was, I pushed in the pedal marked "C". Before I could hit the brake, He had already yanked the lever and it fired up.



The "C" pedal works backwards from a normal clutch pedal and it engages the clutch when you push it.





Well anyway the garage door is closed and my Father jumped back but couldn't go any farther because of the door. The front fenders on the Model T had both of his wrists pinned against the door. He was hollering pretty loud and my brain wouldn't tell my foot to get the hell off the 'C" pedal. In other words, I panicked!



What was so bad was hearing the tires squawling while they spinning, trying to push my Father through the roll up door. All of this took place in about a 5 second time frame.



I was scared to death that my Father's hands were gonna be lying on the floor, but we took him to the Hospital and the Doctors said that he was lucky that the fenders pushed into his wrists and not into his arms or hands. He had to wear wrist braces for about 6 months till the tendons healed. He always reminds me of it at least once a year when we're getting the cars ready for a show.



Needless to say he has a complex of standing in front of a vehicle that has the motor running.