Confessions of a first time driver


Released 03/12/2019

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Multiple ACC staff members appearing

Text appears: “Tell us about your first driving experience”

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Staff member 1 sitting in the studio

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Staff member 1 – “Can I do that again? Okay.”

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Staff member 2 laughing

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Staff member 3 sitting in the studio

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Staff member 3 – “I was 15 years old my mum offered to take me on a driving lesson.”

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Staff member 2 – “One day very soon after passing my test, I jumped into my mum’s car and it was night time, totally forgot the lights on.”

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Staff member 1 sitting in the studio

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Staff member 1 – “I learned to drive a few years ago, I eventually got my father to take me on a driving lesson.”

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Staff member 4 – “So when I learnt to drive my very patient father decided to teach me and our first attempt was in a subdivision that was being developed so there wasn't a lot of traffic around”

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Staff member 3 – “and I remember that moment when the car started tracking forward I was actually driving.”

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Staff member 1 – “We were driving through very quiet suburban streets.”

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Staff member 3 – “I remember out of the corner of my eyes seeing mum's hand just kind of go up and grab that that handle that’s on the passenger side of the door and just a little bit of a white-knuckle grip.”

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Staff member 4 – “Somehow I managed to take my 1996 Nissan Sentra and navigated into a curb.”

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Staff member 1 – “As soon as I saw a car, I said there's a car coming, there’s a car coming but the car was actually only also only doing about 40K’s and it’s about a hundred meters away.”

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Staff member 2 – “A car pulled out in front of me. It was a post fan and I plowed into the post fan and then ricocheted it into the side of a house and that said to tell back of traffic past my mum's house.”

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Staff member 3 – “I mean suddenly mum just yanks the handbrake on, I stalled the car and she told me she can't do this anymore and I started AA driver training the very next week.”

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Staff member 4 – “Later I found out that there actually was quite a bit of damage to car and my and my just quietly gone away and got it repaired without my knowledge.”

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Staff member 2 – “She came out of the house to check out what the commotion was, she walked at the street and she chanted at me 'Rhys you stupid little boy'.”

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Staff member 3 – “So the moral of the story is outsourcing is great.”

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Staff member 2 – “So if it's dark, put your lights on.”

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Staff member 4 sitting in the studio

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Staff member 4 – “So what I would tell a new driver is watch out for curbs.”

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Staff member 1 sitting in the studio

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Staff member 1 – “Ok did you want my story about being tailgated by a giant giant semi-trailer.”

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www.acc.co.nz