Driving test failed 21 times ‘I won’t give up’

hoodie6029

In the Indo today.

https://m.independent.ie/irish-news/i-will-never-give-up-ray-73-vows-to-pass-driving-test-despite-failing-21-times/a1548586468.html

To avoid the paywall: https://archive.is/SIOwt

For the sake of everyone else on the road, give up!

The language of this article is ridiculous. ‘Testers refused to pass him’. No, he failed to meet the standard required for a certificate of competency to be granted. He incompetent. That’s a fact.

Bet this guy hasn’t had a lesson in the last 12 years either.

The only reason he is getting sympathetic treatment in the Indo is to appeal to their base.

“I will drive on a provisional license… “ No such thing any more, a Learner’s Permit and he must be accompanied. I think silly season is well underway,

Danzy

Only quitters quit.

The truest statement in life.

FishOnABike

I wonder what the 'technical problem' was exchanging his UK driving license for an Irish one when he moved to Ireland.

If he has been driving for more than 50 years, his UK license should have been valid up to when he was 70. Surely it should have been straightforward to exchange for an Irish license.

Miscreant

So he had a full UK licence and because of a "technical" issue, it could not be converted to an Irish one? I would love to know what the issue was that would completely put the stoppers on a licence conversion like this, as it is, and has been done on a daily basis for decades.

As usual with media articles, there is more to the story here than we are being told.

hoodie6029

Technical issue I hope is that he was using his father’s driving licence for decades as he had the same name. NDLS smelled a scam when a 120 year old man was looking to exchange his licence 😂

donegal_man

Did he perhaps have a UK provisional/learners license?

DownByTheGarden

Thy do licenses in Tayto Park. If I were him I would try there first.

Sam Russell

Perhaps he could list the 21 failures he had on each test.

Were they all the same. Like not obeying the rules of the road. Or perhaps not using the mirrors. Or not observing the speed limit. Or perhaps all of these in all of the failures.

Of course, it takes a bit of journalism to research this.

Atlantic Dawn

Whatever insurer is providing him insurance should be shut down.

His previous test was in 2019.

https://www.thesun.ie/news/4482021/irelands-worst-driver-failing-test-twenty-times/

hoodie6029

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120739886#Comment_120739886

Never does the speed limit so the road in front is always clear. Less to react to then.

Never use my mirrors so I’m oblivious to the miles of traffic behind me.

There are thousands of drivers like him out there, of all ages.

The scary thing is that the State used to have some handle on it with the old system of provisional licences. Some people were somewhat compliant and just keep booking and cancelling tests to renew their licence. Insurers were complicit in this too.

The move to the new system of 12 lessons etc has caused a lot of those people to go completely ‘dark’. No licence, No insurance. The State doesn’t even know how many are out there.

bop1977

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120739886#Comment_120739886

He failed on the following:

stopping: 1 grade 2 fault.

moving off: 4 grade 2 faults.

turning left: 2 grade 1 faults.

changing lanes: 1 grade 2 fault.

roundabouts: 2 grade 1 and 1 grade 2 faults.

clutch 2 grade: 1 and 1 grade 2 faults.

gears 2 grade: 1 and 1 grade 2 faults.

handbrake: 2 grade 1 and 1 grade 2 faults.

coupling/uncoupling: 1 grade 2 fault.

road marking: 2 grade 2 faults.

roundabouts: 2 grade 2 faults.

no fancy ass degree in journalism here, just a quick google of the test sheet and marring up his test sheet.

wotzgoingon

This reminds me of the time the state just gave out free driving licences to people back in the 70's I think it was as there was a massive back log. I personally know two people who got them. I could know more but people wouldn't tell you even if they did get one.

Citizen Six

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120741731#Comment_120741731

What's coupling/uncoupling?

Sam Russell

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120741775#Comment_120741775

That is attaching a trailer or detaching it. I assume part of HGV test.

Surely not this guy.

Lewis_Benson

"Sure me driving is fine, I only drive in the slow lane and don't pass people out, and roundabouts are stupid."

BK5

There should be a limit of 5 fails in the test and that should be it because 5 fails shows that your not competent or safe behind the wheel and you have no real interest in learning to drive anyway.

I have an Aunt who has failed 8 times and her whole family has said that no matter who tries to teach she will not listen and keeps driving the same way she has for years and yet she is still let drive around the place on her own.

hoodie6029

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120742043#Comment_120742043

+1

We don’t think that everybody is capable of flying a plane, using a welder, or shoeing a horse but society expects everyone to be able to drive. Some people just aren’t fit to be behind the wheel. They might be hugely intelligent in other ways but for some people, the aptitude just isn’t there.

Get Real

Always skeptical at these types of articles. He says he doesn't want publicity or that. Yet, how would anyone else know he failed 21 times? If he told family, or friends or that, understandable. But that doesn't translate to an article in a national newspaper without a few steps.

I wonder who contacted who? My guess is the man who can't get what he clearly wants, contacted a journo about it and worded it in a certain way.

I do wish him the best, and that he passes on merit, fairly, like everyone else.

washman3

Some pressure on the next tester now...😂😂

This fella is playing a blinder...!!!

pah

Plenty 70 year olds out there who got a full licence off the back of a cornflakes box or whatever way they used to do it and wouldn't pass a driving test from the last 30 years in a fit

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He was dubbed “Ireland’s worst driver” by some commentators, something the Mayfield man disputes.

He once undertook a test and registered 45 faults, almost five times the number required to fail.

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So his logic for insisting he is not Irelands sh1test driver is that he hasn't killed anyone? Gowl