It’s not a new game, but it is getting more common these days.
“Beat the Learner” is where the driver of a car which has no right of way under any normal circumstances has such a tiny brain that they work on the principle that if the other car has L plates on it then they can just do whatever they feel like.
I had one tonight – it was a yucky grey SAAB (reg. no. X436 XAL). I approached traffic lights w
hich had just changed to green, intending to turn left. This dickhead saw me coming, processed the information in his (or her) tiny mind at half speed, and when they arrived at the condition “it’s got L plates”, they decided that meant they could go – and turned right across my path.
It’s worth pointing out that once they turned they then proceeded to drive at well in excess of 30mph all the way through Ruddington, forcing their way past parked cars in the face of oncoming traffic. They turned towards Clifton and that was the last I saw of them.
It’s also worth pointing out that there was a child in the passenger seat – a young girl aged 10 at most. So as well as being a rubbish and dangerous driver, they are also extremely unfit parents. It’s always the ones who are most unfit for being parents who breed like flies, of course, but the girl in that passenger seat is to be pitied for the life she is destined for, by having such an appalling role model as a mother or father.