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Daily Mirror
Daily Mirror
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Catherine Musgrove & Courtney Pochin

Dad's fury as teen fails driving test before turning engine on - as car is 'too dirty'

Driving examiners have come under fire from those taking their tests as they are being failed before they've even started the car - as the vehicles are deemed to be 'too dirty'.

Paul Turner, a dad from St Michaels on Wyre, in Lancashire, claims his 17-year-old daughter was left "distraught" when she failed her recent test for having tiny white filings from a rubber eraser on the carpet underneath the passenger seat.

The teenager, who asked not to be named, had waited months to take her test at Blackpool Test Centre, but claims the examiner refused to even get in the car.

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