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Police busted a driving test examiner this week, accusing him of pocketing large sums of money in exchange for securing test success for otherwise dodgy drivers.
Those investigating the case believe he may have “helped” around 100 drivers to get through their driving tests, with those under suspicion of having faked passes now in the process of having their ill-gotten licenses revoked.
And it wasn’t just one rogue examiner struggling to meet his credit card repayments, either. Investigators from the Driving Standards Agency also arrested two driving instructors who they believe acted as agents, funneling potential payers to the dodgy examiner.
Andrew Rice, a fraud expert at the DSA, said: “We believe the candidates have approached their driving instructor, they’ve had a conversation saying for x amount of money we can guarantee you a pass. The candidate then agrees to that. The driving instructor then speaks to our member of staff and tells them which candidate to pass.”
£3,000 seems like an awful lot of money to pay for a test pass, though. You could get loads of lessons and a decent old car for that. Reversing around a corner isn’t that hard. [BBC via Jalopnik]
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I worked as a driving instructor about 15 years ago around the the Peckham and Oval areas of London and 80% of my pupils were people already driving here on international licences (Nigerians mostly but not exclusively) which were running out and they wanted a British licence so had to pass the UK test.
I was offered bribes, threatened and even once propositioned by people looking for the easy solution. In my experience they’d have a few lessons, get annoyed that the way they’d been driving for years overseas wasn’t upto UK test standards and either have a trip home (thus renewing their international licence) or just carry on driving and claim ignorance if stopped.
Try driving in Nigeria with your “UK test Standards”, and lets see how far you get!!
I have, and survived.
“Reversing around a corner isn’t that hard.”
Tell that to my missus.
BA DUM TISH !!
HAHAAHAHAHAHA!
I remember my first driving lesson quite well. After a quick tour of what each and every lever does I started my first foray onto public roads. “Ok, turn left at the end of this lane and join the dual carridgeway. When you reach the roundabout, make sure you’re in the 3rd lane and take the second exit”. 2 hours and multiple near misses later my lesson came to an end. After that all of the other ones were pretty easy. Paying to pass is just cheating and can be pretty dangerous to other road users, but I suppose there are plenty of people out there who think they’re entitled to something they haven’t earned.
So he managed to make well over 300k out of this dodgy business and I’m surprised he didn’t even try legging out of the country!
Wow… I wish this happened in Brazil… So many people buy their license and so many people know about it and do nothing… We really need some drivers getting their license revoked
Looks like Danny’s been a naughty boy. I hope not, as I rather like the guy
Why pay 3K to pass a test that is so easy anyway? This is like a retard tax.
LOL – And, have the DVLA / DSA ever decided to check the employees out who send out licences etc, up in west yorkshire – if your an illeagle immigrant there is one or two bodies that can get a genuine licence issued from the dvla offices for a nice hefty sum…