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A LEARNER driver forced a whole street to be evacuated when she drove into the side of a house during a botched three-point turn. The driver cracked a water pipe, flooding the street and causing a gas pipe to rupture. Firefighters were scrambled to the scene and were forced to extinguish a barbecue at a birthday party across the road for fear of it causing an explosion. They later apologised for spoiling the party, but residents insisted the student driver was to blame for “lurching forward”. Both the learner and the BSM driving instructor escaped unscathed. About 30 people from homes on Park Terrace in Edinburgh were sent to the nearby Newcraighall Primary School while gas engineers wrestled with the burst pipe. The driving school’s Fiat 500 car was emblazoned with the slogan: “More experience, more passes.” But one bystander said: “If she’s on her test, I doubt she’s passed.” More