- CCTV footage, taken in Lanus, Argentina, has now gone viral
- The driver was taken to hospital for treatment, but sustained only minor injuries
Closed-circuit television captured the moment a 63-year-old woman in Argentina crashed her car during a disastrous driving test.
In the CCTV video, which has since gone viral, the woman drives hesitantly around the parking lot of her blue hatchback in the eastern city of Lanus.
She can be seen hitting the curb occasionally as she makes her way around the arena with her lights flashing on and off.
The driver then clumsily climbs onto the curb with one side of the car before inexplicably racing at full speed and crashing head-on into a lamppost, sending the car flying through the air.
The car can be seen lying on its side at the end of the video with its wheels still turning, next to the severed lamppost.
Civil defense teams and firefighters were called to help the driver out of the vehicle after it overturned on Wednesday.
She was taken for treatment after sustaining minor injuries.
In 2018, a 66-year-old woman got her pedals mixed up during a test drive and nearly crashed into a group of people in the Argentine city of Bereso.
The footage shows the moment the woman confuses her throttle and brake during a test drive, then reverses at high speed into the cabin of a container being used as a base by test takers – causing them to flee in a panic.
Fortunately, no one was injured in the accident, though the woman did suffer an anxiety attack and needed treatment.
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