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[Hostile]

(Oct. 15) -- Moments after passing his driving test, a Pennsylvania man mistakenly crashed his car into a department of motor vehicles building, smashing through a window and plowing into a waiting room. Four people were injured, none seriously.

The man's license ended up being revoked before he even got it.

Robert Keller, 34, of Carnegie pulled into a parking spot outside the DMV in Collier, Pa., on Wednesday after successfully completing his driving test. Police say he thought the car was in park rather than drive, and then got the accelerator and brake pedals mixed up.

"When I went into my spot, I wasn't exactly straight. ... I was going to put it in reverse, and I mistakenly hit the wrong pedal," Keller told All Headline News. "The car jerked forward into the building at that stage."

An employee at the Dollar Bank Loan Center next door to the DMV said he "heard a loud bang" and then ran outside to see what had happened. "I heard people screaming and ran outside. There were people lying on the floor and glass everywhere," Michael Deeb told the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review.

Neither Keller nor his driving instructor, who was still in the passenger seat, was hurt. Two of the four people hurt inside the building were hospitalized with minor cuts and bruises.

"He was very apologetic," Collier Police Chief Thomas Devin told the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette. "He was more concerned about them than himself."

"He kept saying, 'I hit those people. I hit those people. I'm sorry. I'm sorry. Are they all right?' He was beside himself," Deeb said.

But in the end, Keller failed his test, Devin said. "He was doing pretty good, up until he went through the building."

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[Spartan184]

Sucks for him Right when he was gonna get it too.

[Mathijs]

Honestly, if you mix up the pedals, you're not ready to get your license. That's the sort of thing that's got to be cemented tightly within your brain. Automatism. He wasn't ready yet, at least he wouldn't be in the Netherlands. I hear American driving tests are far less difficult.

[Ash]

Well, they're only more difficult here because they're more expensive and the bastards who assess you will fail you on a whim. And American cars are all automatics (including this one, by the looks of things).

Although, yeah he could've picked a better time for sure. God forbid someone stick a clutch pedal in front of him as well...

[Romanul]

But in the end, Keller failed his test, Devin said. "He was doing pretty good, up until he went through the building."

Such truth.

[Beowulf]

And American cars are all automatics (including this one, by the looks of things).

They are not. My dad drives a manual. Not everyone drives an automatic here.

[Hecthor Doomhammer]

That's nothing.
A 20 year old girl from Holland was on her way to get her licence as well, by car, and was pulled over due to speeding: 160 where 100 (KM) was allowed

[duke_Qa]

That's pretty normal for anyone that have gotten their license. Getting caught within the month seems to be the litmus-test of a good driver.

Technically he didn't pass the test, the papers were probably still in the instructors hands.

I can visualize the instructor: On his way to take off his seatbelt, he gets tossed around for a second and gets glass all over him and loses his glasses, <:o, looks up, out the door, at the driver,-_-, down, picks up glasses and puts them on, brings up clipboard, takes out pen from chest-pocket, wets his lips and smatters once, and clearly by the pen-movements draws a small X, sighs, looks at driver, -___-.