So its OK now to douse people with water using your car? What next in
the catalogue of leniency towards errant motorists as displayed by
this article? What should happen if someone threw a bucket of water
over someone else?

"Given that last month was one of the wettest on record, you would
expect to find a few puddles on the highways and byways.

But for one learner driver they have become a particular problem -
after an examiner failed her for accidentally splashing a pedestrian.

Michelle Kelly, 31, was told the incident was technically a crash, and
that she should have stopped and exchanged details with the man.

Last night she called the examiner's decision ' ludicrous'. Officials
have promised to carry out an investigation into the incident.

Miss Kelly said: 'It was a small kerbside puddle. I didn't see it but
I did drive through it because I saw it splash a pedestrian.

'It wasn't a big splash - it was only small and I didn't think I had
committed a fault so carried on driving and concentrating on my test.

'But when I pulled in at the centre the examiner said he'd failed me.

'He then spoke at length about the splashing and told me it
constituted a traffic offence and he was treating it as a road
accident. He said that because I had splashed the pedestrian I should
have pulled the car over and exchanged details with him.' ..."

Yeah sure! I can see loads of motorists bothering to do that.

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