Girl, 17, 'left in floods of tears' after failing driving test as car was 'too dirty'
dailystar.co.ukdriver has failed her test before it even started, because the car she was using was slammed as being “too dirty” by the examiner.But the girl's father has hit back at Blackpool Test Centre, claiming the car was “spotless” and actually belonged to her own instructor.The girl, who did not want to be named, was left distraught by the incident.
The instructor asked for a second opinion on the state of the car, which was still labelled as dirty.The learner driver now faces a four to five month wait for another test to due long Covid-related backlogs, and will have to shell out £64 again as she was unable to get her money back.Her father, from St Michael's on Wyre, Lancashire, said: “It was the instructor's car and it was spotless apart from a few tiny bits of rubber from when the instructor had rubbed something out of his diary.“The filings weren't on the seat or anywhere were the examiner would be sitting - it wasn't like there were crisp packets and empty tins everywhere, it's ridiculous.“They spent about 10 minutes trying to discuss it and sort it out, but got nowhere.“So she's failed without even driving the car, and there's no way of getting the money back.“She was distraught, in floods of tears, I can't see a reason why he couldn't get into the car.“At the end of the day, these people are civil servants and they need to be accountable.
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