Jack
22-07-11, 01:09 PM
Jeremy Vine is on about driving instruction at the mo, and the dangers of getting the likes of parents to teach their kids how to drive.
There's one woman on at the mo who said when she turned 17 (back in the 70s lol), her dad took her out and round the local industrial estates, which she handled fine. Impressed with her skill, he let her drive home. Approaching a junction, he instructed her to pull up to a stop at the line, then when the road is clear to turn left.
She pulls up, stops, road is clear, so does a complete U-turn and puts the car over the pavement. LMFAO
Anyways, this is all in response to this (http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-kent-14232194) article, where a mother was supervising her daughter and got out of the car to assist her with a parking manouever. Apparently the daughter then ran the mother over, killing her.
Are both parties not guilty of an offence though? As the qualified driver is no longer supervising the learner. The law states that the "supervisor" is someone:
who would in an emergency be able to take control of the steering and braking functions of that vehicle
..thus as the mother was outside of the vehicle, she would be unable to take control of steering and braking, so is therefore not supervising correctly?
There's one woman on at the mo who said when she turned 17 (back in the 70s lol), her dad took her out and round the local industrial estates, which she handled fine. Impressed with her skill, he let her drive home. Approaching a junction, he instructed her to pull up to a stop at the line, then when the road is clear to turn left.
She pulls up, stops, road is clear, so does a complete U-turn and puts the car over the pavement. LMFAO
Anyways, this is all in response to this (http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-kent-14232194) article, where a mother was supervising her daughter and got out of the car to assist her with a parking manouever. Apparently the daughter then ran the mother over, killing her.
Are both parties not guilty of an offence though? As the qualified driver is no longer supervising the learner. The law states that the "supervisor" is someone:
who would in an emergency be able to take control of the steering and braking functions of that vehicle
..thus as the mother was outside of the vehicle, she would be unable to take control of steering and braking, so is therefore not supervising correctly?