If you’re thinking about driving after several years without even touching a steering wheel, you might want to brush up on your highway code first.
Georgia Burke, 29, admitted to not driving a manual since she passed her test eight years ago.
Dogs are being trained to parachute out of planes to fight crimeSo to celebrate, the social media manager decided to take a car out onto the busy London roads (not a bright idea).
And the whole thing was captured on film.
With a driving instructor by her side, things start out a little shaky, and then progressively get worse.
The footage captures the moment a police car signals for the nervous driver to pull over.
As two officers speak to the instructor, the woman, still sat behind the wheel, tries to explain.
‘I’m just shaky because I haven’t driven for ages,’ she says.
The video is part of an awareness video to get drivers, who have spent some time off the road, to take a refreshers course.
Georgia said: ‘I sat my test just before I finished university. I knew that I wouldn’t be driving a lot given I live in London and it wasn’t a necessity, however a lot of people I knew had their licence.’
Make trick-or-treaters happy this Halloween with these edible Harry Potter wandsResearch by comparethemarket.com shows that Georgia isn’t alone, with nearly a million Brits not having driven since passing their test
And 4.55 million drivers are ‘parked’, which means they haven’t driven in at least a year.
If you’re thinking of taking to the road after a league of absence, you might want to start with an empty car park.
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