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Student driver abandoned during test

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Published: Nov. 26, 2007 at 10:50 AM

READING, England, Nov. 26 (UPI) -- A student driver in England says she was abandoned during her driving test by an examiner who "just wandered off."

Faye Rivers, 17, said the examiner left after a problem with the handbrake on the car she was driving, the Daily Mail reported Monday.

Apparently, Rivers was trying to start the engine on a hill but the handbrake failed so she kept her foot on the brake pedal and the examiner left to call for help.

"But he came back and said he couldn't get through. Then he said there was nothing else he could do and told me to phone my driving instructor to come and get me, before walking off," she said.

"I didn't know what to do and for all I knew, the car was about to blow up. But he just wandered off.

"I was so angry. It took 20 minutes for my instructor to find me. I was pressing the brake pedal so hard with my foot, it went numb."

Keith Riley, the teenager's instructor at Reading Driving Academy, said the ordeal gave Rivers experience she may need when she becomes a licensed driver.

"This could have happened when Faye was driving around on her own ... without me to come and get her," he said.

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