Anyone else seen this? I've just set up a series link.

Just watched the first episode on catch up, was quite shocked to see the

little berk go to drive off after several glasses of champagne. Glad to see the

shows producers stopped him from driving. Lucky they were there really or the

little retard would have set off on an hour long journey in that state.

As for Chantelle, did she ever have her hands on the wheel?

If I was her father I'd have put a hammer through her phone when I got hold

of it, he's already lost a wife. Does he really need to go through the upset of losing a

daughter too because the dumb bitch feels the need to use her phone at the wheel.

The girls got anger issues if you ask me, shame there's not a psychological

test required as well to get a drivers licence because this dangerous little girl

would have been kept off the roads. She lives near me as well, I'll be giving her

reward car a wide berth if I should see it round my way.

I did watch the first program but wouldn't bother watching any of the others, there really wasn't anything to it aside from showing two different people driving poorly. I cannot believe the girl was deemed good enough to be allowed a car given she demonstrated consistently appalling driving, instead she should have had her license taken off her. The guy gave the impression of trying to drive a bit better because he knew the cameras were there, I suspect without them he would have been considerably worse and again I don't think he should have a license either. I can't see how advanced driving lessons would help when the problem was his attitude and his mates, I can see him behaving just as badly or worse in future.

John

Watched the first episode don't think I'll be able to watch the rest, just made me angry. At least the girls farther was ****ed off with her, the blokes parents need a ******* slap, everything he done they excused him for one reason or another. Even the drink driving him mum was trying to make out it wasn't his fault! Seriously wound me up.

I watched this and I also thought it was appalling. They both should have lost their license. Is it ok to consistently break laws and drive dangerously because you're making a TV program? If someone had swerved infront of that girl on the motorway there would have been a nasty crash and then what, they would have had to take her license and more. I was disgusted she won a car.

The whole program was **** boiling. He was an idiot. His mum's car with a Ring sticker, PH smiley and head unit. All his mates were bell ends and is the main reason I rarely drink now. These bell ends are everywhere. She though was something else. I'm sure we have all shouted at someone on the road but there's something not right with her.

The problem is that it gives the rest of us car people a bad name. The nimbys will tar us all with the same brush. I'm no saint but I've always taken driving seriously. And they gave her a car?! I bet she's either wrapped it up already or permanently lost somewhere. She'd be stuffed if she did a test now. Did a test a few weeks ago and the first thing I was told was go to "Neath" which is 5 miles from the test centre. She wouldn't have done it.

I can't see how advanced driving lessons would help when the problem was his attitude and his mates, I can see him behaving just as badly or worse in future.

I'd happily have a crack at sorting them out, although it was unclear what advanced course he did for his "punishment". One with access to a low-grip surface at any rate

Agree with most of the other thoughts on the show though and the focus seems to be on showing us what is acceptably bad (to provoke shouting at the tele) rather than actually being proactive in improving them - at least Dangerous Driving School attempts to address this

Chris

ps. is being bought a Corsa a reward or a punishment?

Edited 4 April, 201313 yr by ScoobyChris

I (and a lot of people on the BBC Three Facebook page) have complained to OFCOM about the programme.

Not only is it a ridiculous waste of licence payers money to give a car to someone who has repeatedly demonstrated they are a danger behind the wheel (she got awarded the car based on the fact that she showed "improvement" in one out of three of her "sample" drives), but I lost count of the number of times the law was broken... mobile phone use while driving, causing danger to other drivers, doing 100mph on a wet motorway, being drunk in charge of a vehicle... I think it's a disgrace if the police don't do anything to those two based on the evidence recorded in the programme... if I was the ex-traffic officer woman I wouldn't have been deciding whether to give them a car or a training course, I'd be passing the footage on to my former colleagues!

Not only that but at about 35 minutes into the iPlayer broadcast of it there was footage of the camera car following the girl's Clio through a red light onto a roundabout. So the camera crew filmed themselves breaking the law there too, nice one BBC.

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His mum's car with a Ring sticker, PH smiley and head unit.

Insurance fronting anyone?? That deluded cow thinks her boys sh** don't stink.

That's her car about as much as it's mine, didn't he say (with a chuckle ) he wrote his off?

After a complete write off (No doubt found to be his fault) then at his age, his insurance

would be absolutely astronomical. Getting insured on 'Mums' car would be his only

option.

ps. is being bought a Corsa a reward or a punishment?

The worrying thing is loads of young female drivers are like her now, there so far up themselves that they think its a gift to other road users that their aloud to be on the road with them.

The guy was just a ****...... I agree with martyn about these bellends being everywhere the country is infested with these yolo clones

.....but I lost count of the number of times the law was broken... mobile phone use while driving, causing danger to other drivers, doing 100mph on a wet motorway, being drunk in charge of a vehicle... I think it's a disgrace if the police don't do anything to those two based on the evidence recorded in the programme... if I was the ex-traffic officer woman I wouldn't have been deciding whether to give them a car or a training course, I'd be passing the footage on to my former colleagues!

I recall a bloke being nicked in a Ferrari who'd been "driving the car to it's fullest" (on the M1 I think). The CPS used his own YouTube footage to prosecute him. In the incidents mentioned in this thread, it should be a couple of slam-dunks and these people are off the road.

I found it most annoying when the ex copper was talking to him about his driving at the end

and he was just repeatedly and disinterestedly saying 'Yeah...' as she pointed out his

errors. I just wanted to slap him by this point.

...these yolo clones

I'm old so had to look this up. It explains the lobotomy haircut at least...

http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=yolo

I saw a trailer and that was enough for me.

I know they will have picked some really bad drivers to make the program more "entertaining", and not all teenagers are going to be like that, but it's a fine example of why insurance is so high.

I'm old so had to look this up. It explains the lobotomy haircut at least...

http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=yolo

Also explains the fake tan, dodgy eyebrows and a fashion sense that only a few years ago would have got you called "gay" and they all tend to think their the mutts nutts much like the guy in the program

I did notice at one point towards the end when they were showing her driving that the speedo wasn't working but revs were going up and down. Was she on a towing dolly and pretending to drive to look as if she'd improved a bit? Someone said the other day that both need reprogramming with a shovel. That seems about right. Neither should be driving as they are and he's definitely fronting. Oh and 100 mph in the wet at night with a load of mates egging you on can easily be defended. Stupid woman. Both of them should go on driver improvement courses too

The worrying thing is loads of young female drivers are like her now, there so far up themselves that they think its a gift to other road users that their aloud to be on the road with them.

The guy was just a ****...... I agree with martyn about these bellends being everywhere the country is infested with these yolo clones

And this is why women shouldn't get cheaper insurance.

I think both groups should be hit by the largest premiums the

insurance companies can dream up. The more drivers like these

priced off the roads the better IMO.

I think both groups should be hit by the largest premiums the

insurance companies can dream up. The more drivers like these

priced off the roads the better IMO.

That will just lead to them driving without insurance as it will be cheaper to just pay the fines and buy new bangers each time they lose them.

It will also price sensible young people off the road. Yes they exist too.

The worrying thing is loads of young females are like her now, there so far up themselves that they think its a gift to everybody else

to be allowed to breathe the same air as them.

Corrected that for you.. She probably thinks she's a 'celeb' like Katie Price (Who she worships...) now.

The mind boggles...

That will just lead to them driving without insurance as it will be cheaper to just pay the fines and buy new bangers each time they lose them.

It will also price sensible young people off the road. Yes they exist too.

That would only work if the offence was non-endorsable but with a hefty six points that means a driver will have their license revoked if they are within their two year probation period and will have to resit both their tests. Getting caught a second time (the six points for the revokation still count for totting as usual for up to three years) is an automatic six month ban unless they can plead exceptional hardship.

John

That would only work if the offence was non-endorsable but with a hefty six points that means a driver will have their license revoked if they are within their two year probation period and will have to resit both their tests. Getting caught a second time (the six points for the revokation still count for totting as usual for up to three years) is an automatic six month ban unless they can plead exceptional hardship.

John

If they are willing to drive without insurance, will they care about having a license? Afterall, police in cars on the road are being replaced with speed cameras. Because that is the only issue that needs enforcing.

That will just lead to them driving without insurance as it will be cheaper to just pay the fines and buy new bangers each time they lose them.

It will also price sensible young people off the road. Yes they exist too.

Oh, so if they are insured but drunk then that's okay is it?

As long as you get a payout for your dead kids/wife/smashed up car/permanent disability.

Here's the thing, a large amount of them aren't insured anyway as they use the fronting

method to get on the roads in the first place. I'd feel no better if that bellend in the show

waved a cover note at me after he'd written off my car. The insurer would look at cases like

these very carefully to see if there was anyway they could get out of paying. Especially

if the claim is also for loss of life/disablement. A few cars ago, my Golf got hit up the jacksy

while I was stationary at a roundabout once (ultimately causing nearly 3k of damage).

Young lad driving just hadn't braked at all and slammed into me. Got a phone call that evening from

the boys father (saga policy) to say they wouldn't contest anything I said as long as I said it

was him (the father) driving at the time. (police not involved on the scene).

After doing the math in my head (working out that Johnny Yahoo wasn't covered to drive his

dads Avensis) I took the path of least resistance and put the claim through as if his father had

been driving. I needed my car for work and couldn't afford to wait for a criminal case to

get it fixed. I expect a lot of this goes on.

I don't dispute there are sensible drivers too but unfortunately for them they have

to prove this by good driving conduct over a number of years to reduce their premium

just the same as you did and I did and everybody else did.

I agree (again) with Cheesemonkhai that it's a good thing the automatic deductions just because you

happen to have breasts has stopped too. That girl last night was a menace and I bet as the series

progresses one thing will repeatedly rear its head again and again with the female contingent

and that thing is phone use.

Grr, I think these 2 in that show don't even deserve to have a license and there are many other like them, but I don't think its reasonable to price all young drivers off the road because of it. Maybe compulsory tracker insurance for the first year or two might sort out the morons.

Like you, I would be absolutely livid if some chav in a Corsa with no valid insurance wrote of my car.

But we all started driving at some point.

If they are willing to drive without insurance, will they care about having a license? Afterall, police in cars on the road are being replaced with speed cameras. Because that is the only issue that needs enforcing.

I'm not sure how it works when you don't have a license at all, the penalties for driving while disqualified are pretty steep though and quickly lead to jailtime.

John

I'm not sure how it works when you don't have a license at all, the penalties for driving while disqualified are pretty steep though and quickly lead to jailtime.

John

Unless you're an Argentinian footballer

No, its not exactly sustainable, but my main point is that making it impossible to get insurance is unlikely to deter a number of the people you'd least like to see on the roads, ie the ones who don't really care. Their kind probably don't have valid insurance as it is.