Oswaldtwistle learner driver flipped car over (From Lancashire Telegraph)
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Oswaldtwistle learner driver flipped car over
10:09am Tuesday 3rd January 2012 in Oswaldtwistle
A WOMAN flipped a car onto its roof when she hit a telegraph pole during a driving lesson.
Firefighters cut the driver and her female instructor free from the Vauxhall Corsa after they were called to the scene in Haslingden Old Road, Oswaldtwistle, at about 4.20pm yesterday.
Watch manager Paul Whittaker said: “It was a young lady on a driving lesson.
“She lost control on the bends at Ramsclough Farm and hit a telegraph pole, and the car ended up on its roof with her and her instructor, who were both in their 20s, inside.
"I don’t think they were particularly badly hurt. The ambulance crew were concerned about spinal injuries, so we got them out on spinal boards, but that is quite normal these days.
“We were there for about an hour because it was difficult to extricate them.”
Comments(11)
Dave Harwood
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2:19pm Tue 3 Jan 12
Soul
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4:50pm Tue 3 Jan 12
LeeBRFCSpary
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3:19pm Wed 4 Jan 12
hmmm well as a qualified ADI I take pupils down that road quite often and it's used by examiner's for test routes.
If it's where I think it is, it's a 40 zone all down there, so how did this happen?
The responsibility must lie solely with the "instructor" here, she clearly wasn't doing what she was being paid to do.
KenADI
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8:07pm Wed 4 Jan 12
Even though the article says "instructor", there's no clear evidence of that being an ADI.
We all know what the newspapers are like to get a readership.
Soul
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9:27pm Wed 4 Jan 12
KenADI
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9:12am Thu 5 Jan 12
sinclair
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4:35pm Thu 5 Jan 12
sinclair
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4:36pm Thu 5 Jan 12
sinclair
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4:40pm Thu 5 Jan 12
sinclair wrote:Sorry; wrong pub name, should have been Coach and Horses.
Just to clarify, that this was not in the test area, it was further out along that road past the bends by the Grey Mare.
sinclair
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4:40pm Thu 5 Jan 12
fabinribblevalley says...
10:50am Tue 3 Jan 12