Bedford Driving Lessons

A driver crashed into a school when he was over-the-limit… on his first driving lesson. Learner George Howarth lost control of his instructor’s Nissan Micra going round a bend and embedded it into railings. The instructor tried to brake using his controls, but Howarth continued to accelerate onto the pavement. Howarth was one-and-a-half times the limit and blamed it on drinking the night before – even though the accident, in Gorton, Manchester, was at 4.30pm the following the afternoon. Mohammed Zahid from the Z-Plus driving school, said the instructor had been unaware Howarth, of Bickerdike Court, Longsight, had been drinking. He said: ‘He wasn’t aware. He’s a very good instructor and he doesn’t drink himself. We didn’t know.’ Jobless Howarth, 53, has since passed his test. But Manchester magistrates promptly banned him from driving for 16 months after he admitted drink-driving. More