Driving test examiners suffer at the hands of learners

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We don't envy the UK's driving test examiners. Judging whether a hormonal teenager is capable of controlling a one-tonne metal box is beset with danger, and not just from the clumsiness of their oversized feet on the pedals.

Apparently 209 examiners reported being verbally assaulted by candidates last year after the tension (or presumably news of a poor result) became too much to bear with good grace. Five even suffered physical assaults.

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