Thousands of learners ‘being taught by secret trainee driving instructors’
As many as 75,000 learner drivers have been taught in the past year unaware their instructor was actually a trainee, the AA says.
One learner was told that the pink badge trainees display to show their junior status was the sign of a top-quality instructor.
One in seven instructors is a trainee, according to Driving Standards Agency figures, but one major driving school banned instructors from revealing their status to learners.
One aspiring instructor was even told to ‘make things up’ if asked about the badge, the AA said.
‘Incredibly, driving schools are not obliged to give you a transparent choice, so many charge as if it’s a fully qualified instructor,’ said AA president Edmund King, who has written to road safety minister Mike Penning.
‘We have heard of learners being passed between a succession of failing trainees without being told their instructor is not fully qualified.’
In one case, a 17-year-old on her first lesson was placed with a trainee instructor who was ‘even more nervous than she was’.
A crash into a lamppost was averted when the car stalled.
From : Metro
www.bedford-driving-schools.co.uk would like to remind learners & people looking for driving instructors or driving schools to ask BEFORE booking a lesson if their instructor has a GREEN or a PINK badge. Driving instructors that have a GREEN badge are FULLY QUALIFIED driving instructors & driving instructors that have a PINK badge are TRAINEE instructors. The badge should be displayed in the car window in the car which is being used by the driving instructor during the driving lessons.
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