Joseph Lewis, 26, passed his driving test just seven weeks after a complicated operation to prevent him from a lifetime of blindness and enabled him to see. He had suffered with poor vision his whole life and had developed cataracts six months ago, forcing him to lose the little sight he had.

The life-changing operation removed the cataracts and replaced his natural lenses with artificial ones which have been surgically implanted into his eyes and work in the same way as the most advanced lenses in a pair of glasses.

Lewis had always wanted to be able to drive but it seemed impossible for him to do so but this operation has now enabled to him to drive.

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Changes are being made to the issuing of licences to young learners. A Green Paper is due to be published by ministers which recommends a one-year ‘learner stage’ beginning at 17, during which drivers would have to have at least 100 hours of daytime and 20 hours of night-time practice under supervision. Learners can then only take their test at 18 and will be issued with a 12-month probationary licence and would be required to display a green ‘P’ plate.

During the probationary stage, drivers would have a curfew between 22:00 and 05:00 and all those under 30 will be banned from carrying any passengers under 30.

Jane Hunt ADI of Britannia Driving School argues ‘education and changing driver attitude is the key to improving safety’.

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Ministers plan to ban people from taking the driving test in a foreign language amid fears that they are unable to read English road signs. Further, the case of the Mandarin translator for the theory test who was jailed for 12 months for fraudulently indicating the correct answers to the theory test questions has caused concerns that interpreters enable learners to cheat.

The current rules allow the theory test to be sat in 19 foreign languages, aided by either an interpreter or voiceovers, and permit learners to attend the practical test with a translator.

In a consultation run earlier this year over 70 per cent of people supported the ban of foreign language voiceovers and interpreters on tests.

The changes are designed to mimic driving in real life and it is feared that in a lot of cases interpreters may be giving more help than they are supposed to.

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It has been found that more than 4 million people aged over 70 have full UK driving licences with 191 people a century old or more. The country’s oldest licensed driver is an 107-year-old woman.

Motorists over 70 must declare that they are fit to drive every three years without the need for a medical exam; calls have been made for a full medical examination by a doctor to be carried out before they are deemed fit to drive. Professor Stephen Glaister, director of the RAC Foundation said ‘many motorists simply do not have a realistic view of their capabilities’.

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Everyone worries about their driving test; will I pass? Will I make a mistake? How many mistakes will I make?

However worried you are about your upcoming driving test, you can take solace in one thought.. There is always someone who has had a worse test than you.

Here is that person.

A video has recently gone viral of a dashboard camera capturing the moment a South Korean woman made herself infamous on the internet for what has to be the most spectacular, and most disastrous driving test of all time.

And the test lasted just seven seconds.

The woman, much to the fear and anger of her examiner, started the engine, and proceeded to move forward abruptly, inducing shouts of “Brake! Brake!” from her examiner, but all was too late. Her car mounted the curb, and as she made a feeble attempt to correct the positioning of the vehicle back onto the road, she instead forced the car into a dramatic tilt onto its right-hand side, causing the entire automobile to topple over onto its roof, shattering the windscreen.

Fortunately neither the pupil nor the examiner was injured in the incident. However, needless to say, she was not granted a driving license that day.

So next time you’re worrying about your driving test, or chastising yourself for a previous error, just remind yourself… it probably could have been much worse.

Safe driving from Britannia!

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