Crash pass

05-07-2008 13:15

A British learner driver crashed halfway through his test but still managed to pass.

Student Gareth Purslow, 20, hit another car as it pulled out from a parking bay, but continued the test with a dent in the side of his instructor's Renault Clio in High Wycombe, South England. Delighted Gareth said: "I couldn't believe it when I got the pass slip back at the test centre. When the crash happened I thought, 'That's it', but my examiner let me carry on."

And at the end of his hour-long ordeal, he hadn't a fault on the marking sheet and got his licence o his first attempt.

Gareth said: "The examiner sorted everything out after the collision. I was so nervous my legs were shaking."

I couldn't believe it when I got the pass slip back at the test centre. When the crash happened I thought, 'That's it', but my examiner let me carry on.