{"id":11414,"date":"2013-01-03T18:57:24","date_gmt":"2013-01-03T18:57:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.diaryofanadi.co.uk\/?p=11414"},"modified":"2013-01-03T18:57:24","modified_gmt":"2013-01-03T18:57:24","slug":"aussie-learner-gets-what-he-deserves","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/?p=11414","title":{"rendered":"Aussie Learner Gets What He Deserves"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I saw <a title=\"The learner driver who drove with his hands behind his head - and the whole thing was caught on camera! Now down-under driver faces danger charge\" href=\"http:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/article-2256127\/Learner-driver-drove-hands-head--thing-caught-camera-Now-20-year-old-faces-dangerous-drive-charge.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> this on the newsfeeds<\/a>. It tells how an Australian learner driver was videoed driving with his hands behind his head for a considerable distance (20km). In the video he is seen doing it alongside oncoming traffic (sorry about the advert &#8211; you can skip it):<\/p>\n<p><object width=\"486\" height=\"412\" classid=\"clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000\" codebase=\"http:\/\/download.macromedia.com\/pub\/shockwave\/cabs\/flash\/swflash.cab#version=6,0,40,0\" bgcolor=\"#FFFFFF\"><param name=\"src\" value=\"http:\/\/c.brightcove.com\/services\/viewer\/federated_f8\/1418452869\" \/><param name=\"flashvars\" value=\"videoId=2068924445001&amp;linkBaseURL=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.dailymail.co.uk%2Fnews%2Farticle-2256127%2FLearner-driver-drove-hands-head--thing-caught-camera-Now-20-year-old-faces-dangerous-drive-charge.html&amp;playerId=1418452869&amp;viewerSecureGatewayURL=https:\/\/console.brightcove.com\/services\/amfgateway&amp;servicesURL=http:\/\/services.brightcove.com\/services&amp;cdnURL=http:\/\/admin.brightcove.com&amp;domain=embed&amp;autoStart=false&amp;\" \/><param name=\"base\" value=\"http:\/\/admin.brightcove.com\" \/><param name=\"seamlesstabbing\" value=\"false\" \/><param name=\"swliveconnect\" value=\"true\" \/><param name=\"pluginspage\" value=\"http:\/\/www.macromedia.com\/shockwave\/download\/index.cgi?P1_Prod_Version=ShockwaveFlash\" \/><\/object><\/p>\n<p>He isn\u2019t named in the article, but I doubt he\u2019ll remain anonymous for long. If he doesn\u2019t get the bright idea of going public about it himself, I\u2019m sure someone else will do it for him.<\/p>\n<p>Police have charged the 20-year old with reckless conduct likely to cause . And so they should serious injury, dangerous driving, and failure to have control of a motor vehicle.<\/p>\n<p>Let\u2019s hope the courts throw the book at him when he goes to court on April 3rd.<\/p>\n<p>This illustrates why young drivers &#8211; especially male ones &#8211; throughout the world have the most accidents. It\u2019s because for the majority of them, until their brains mature, they\u2019re technically prats.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I saw this on the newsfeeds. It tells how an Australian learner driver was videoed driving with his hands behind his head for a considerable distance (20km). In the video he is seen doing it alongside oncoming traffic (sorry about the advert &#8211; you can skip it): He isn\u2019t named in the article, but I [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[80,86,87,101],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11414","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-adi-related","category-bad-drivers","category-news","category-world-related"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11414","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11414"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11414\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11414"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11414"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11414"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}