DRIVING instructor Keith Scranage condemns the unsatisfactory practice of people teaching their relatives how to drive (Your Letters, June 12) but I wonder if driving schools are as satisfactory as Mr Scranage implies.
Recently, there have been several "fly on the wall" TV documentaries on driving schools. These featured pupils who have had dozens of driving lessons and taken the test 20 or 30 times, and sometimes more, and still have not passed their test. It is often clear that these hapless individuals have no business being behind the wheel of a car as they are a menace to pedestrians, other drivers and themselves
Admittedly, these TV programmes are very funny and I must confess to having a good laugh at them myself. But in view of the annual toll of death and injury on the roads one can't help wondering if a contributory factor is driving schools manoeuvring totally unsuitable people through the driving test, when they should be telling them that they are not fit to drive.
But then I guess that this would be killing the goose that lays the golden eggs, wouldn't it?
TRAVELLER
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