Jeremy Clarkson  Jeremy Clarkson  Clarkson on: driving tests
Before Quentin became an estate agent and drove around talking
about people's fireplaces, he lent those dulcet tones to a
programme called Driving School. You may remember it.  It
focused on people learning to drive and it made a star of
Maureen, whose mouth was on upside down.  Sadly, she never did
get the hang of driving, but that didn't matter; some civil
servant in beige trousers handed over a document saying that she
was legally able to drive a Ferrari F40 on the Snake Pass in
winter.  Well that's just brilliant. And Maureen isn't alone.
There was another woman in the programme who, having passed her
test, had another lesson because she wasn't confident enough.
She wouldn't be, driving around with a dog the size of a
wildebeest in the passenger seat.  Oh, how we laugh... right up
to the moment when someone just like dog-woman ploughs into a
primary school playground, killing 30 under-fives.  I'm sorry,
but every day I see people in cars who we