A man in China’s Jiangsu province has earned the dubious accolade of the country’s 'worst driver' after a video emerged of him taking 10 minutes to reverse out of a parking space - hitting the car next to him a staggering 15 times.
The footage, taken earlier this month in Jiangyin, a city of around two million people in the east of the country, shows the hapless man trying dozens of different angles and manoeuvres, even though it should've be relatively simple to steer his way out.
After - eventually - getting out, he speeds away without making any effort to let the unfortunate driver of the neighbouring car know what he'd done.
He was tracked down by police officers, who contacted local car dealers to find his identity and confiscated the man’s licence for suspicion of hit and run, pending further penalty measures, reports the South China Morning Post.
The man, who had only been driving for two months, has been called 'reverse brother' by Chinese social media users, who wondered how he passed the driving test in the first place.
'Did he buy the licence, or what?' one said. Bribing officials to obtain a licence is a common practice in China.
China’s roads are notoriously dangerous. According to the World Health Organisation (WHO) around 200,000 people are killed in crashes every year, the leading causes of death for people between 14 and 44 years of age.
China has about 85 million passenger cars plying its roads, about 40 per cent fewer than in the United States.
Yet 67,759 people died in road accidents in China in 2009, according to official statistics - more than double the number in the U.S.
The footage, taken earlier this month in Jiangyin, a city of around two million people in the east of the country, shows the hapless man trying dozens of different angles and manoeuvres, even though it should've be relatively simple to steer his way out.
After - eventually - getting out, he speeds away without making any effort to let the unfortunate driver of the neighbouring car know what he'd done.
He was tracked down by police officers, who contacted local car dealers to find his identity and confiscated the man’s licence for suspicion of hit and run, pending further penalty measures, reports the South China Morning Post.
The man, who had only been driving for two months, has been called 'reverse brother' by Chinese social media users, who wondered how he passed the driving test in the first place.
'Did he buy the licence, or what?' one said. Bribing officials to obtain a licence is a common practice in China.
China’s roads are notoriously dangerous. According to the World Health Organisation (WHO) around 200,000 people are killed in crashes every year, the leading causes of death for people between 14 and 44 years of age.
China has about 85 million passenger cars plying its roads, about 40 per cent fewer than in the United States.
Yet 67,759 people died in road accidents in China in 2009, according to official statistics - more than double the number in the U.S.
Source : DailyMail
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