Learner driver flips instructor's car on second lesson

The driver, aged in her 20s, lost control after she locked the steering wheel to the right and stamped on the accelerator pedal as she left a junction. But instead of joining the road the brand new black Fiat 500 performed a high-speed u-turn straight into a garden gate.

The car climbed the gatepost and rolled onto its side before coming to a rest on its roof. Residents rushed to the scene and helped to free the teacher and pupil from the two-door car in Old Road in Headington, Oxon., on Sunday lunchtime.



Homeowner Dermot Dobson, 58, took pictures of the crash scene outside the house he shares with wife Perdy, 55. The healthcare scientist joked that it would be a "long while" before the pupil is ready for her test.

"The girl kept saying she couldn't believe it and that it was only her second lesson. "She was understandably quite shocked. The instructor was more like 'c'est la vie, accidents happen'."