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Fun Motoring Facts

Last year in the UK, the household total debt on cars rose to around £40bn according to a report from the Finance & Leasing Association in June, bringing new car sales close to beating an all-time record of £2.58m in 2003. We look at some fascinating facts about driving, provided by Ageas Insurance:

  1. On average less than half of all driving tests result in a pass! Recent Government statistics show that the success rate is 47%.
  2. If you could lay all the roads in the UK in a straight line, you would go into space and past the moon. That’s 238,855 miles from earth.
  3. 1935 was the first year that the driving test was compulsory and 246,000 candidates put themselves forward for it.
  4. The first test for an automatic vehicle was introduced in 1969.
  5. The record for sitting a theory test is 90 times! A woman from Southwark, London spent nearly £3,000 on the test before she was able to pass.
  6. A 42 year old man from Stoke holds the record for the most failed practical tests. He finally succeeded on his 37th attempt.
  7. In 1934, there were just 1.5 million cars in use, but more than 7,000 people were killed on the country’s roads. Within a year of the introduction of the test, the number of deaths had fallen by 1,000.
  8. Singer Ozzy Osbourne took 19 attempts to pass his driving test.
  9. In Mexico you don’t need to take a driving test, just buy a licence for around £30.
  10. In Japan you would fail your test if you don’t bend down low enough to check for cats under your car.

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