Saw this in the Daily Mail today – a Driving Examiner is suing a pupil who allegedly caused him to suffer whiplash on a test. The same story is also covered by the BBC.
It’s a hard one to work out. On the one hand, someone going to test who uses their left foot to brake makes you sit back and think ‘Hmmmm!’ (and when she says she ‘wouldn’t have made the same mistake again’, you know this is tosh because if she panicked enough to do it once she’d not be able to avoid doing it again). But on the other hand, the fact that it seems the examiner has raised two other claims for accidents he’s apparently been involved in (you assume whilst carrying out his job) also makes you wonder about him.
There’s some strange people involved in this game – on both sides of the fence.
EDIT 20/02/2009: See latest news on this here .