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‘Worst driver in China’ hits nearby car 15 times while reversing out of parking space

A man in China has been dubbed the country’s “worst driver” after video emerged of him taking a full 10 minutes to reverse out of a parking space.

A man in China’s eastern province of Jiangsu has been dubbed the country’s “worst driver” after video emerged of him taking a full 10 minutes to reverse out of a parking space.

The surveillance video, shot on the morning of October 6 in Jiangyin, a city of around two million people near Wuxi, shows the man attempting to reverse from a standard parking space.

As well as taking around 10 minutes to get out of the space, trying dozens of different angles and manoeuvres in the process, the driver manages to hit the car next to his at least 15 times. After he finally gets out of the space he speeds away, ignoring the damage he’s done to another person’s car.

Police later located the man – who has since been nicknamed “reverse brother” by Chinese internet users -- by studying surveillance video footage and asking local car dealers for tips. The officers confiscated the man’s licence for suspicion of hit and run, pending further penalty measures, according to the newspaper. Many surprised commenters have wondered how the the man, a new driver of only two months, had ever passed a driving test in the first place.

“Did he buy the licence, or what?” one commenter asked.

China’s roads are notoriously dangerous. According to the World Health Organisation (WHO) around 200,000 people are killed in crashes every year.

“Injuries to drivers, passengers and pedestrians remain the leading causes of death for people between 14 and 44 years of age,” a recent WHO report found.

The process of passing a driving test in China is often open to corruption. In February last year, reported that more than 40 police officers at the vehicle administration bureau of Zhanjiang, a city with a population of almost seven million in Guangdong province, were fired for taking bribes from learner drivers.

“Some of the officers took bribes so frequently they cannot remember the amount of money they received,” said an anti-corruption investigator at the time.

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