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Woman flunks driver's test when car goes into Pompano canal

By Macollvie Jean-Francois
sun-sentinel.com

POMPANO BEACH -- A 19-year-old woman flunked her driver's license exam on Wednesday after she drove a borrrowed taxi-cab into a canal, authorities said.

The woman's neighbor, a Broward Taxi Co. cab driver, took her to the testing agency agency at 2712 W. Atlantic Blvd, city spokeswoman Sandra King said. The cab driver agreed to let the woman practice by herself in the parking lot around 11 a.m.

"He said, 'The next thing I knew the car is going through the bushes and heading toward the canal,'" King said. "The car was halfway submerged. He ran over and pulled her out."

"Needless to say, she did not pass the driver's license test," King added.

The identities of the driver and the cab driver were not immediately available, she said.

Authorities are on the scene waiting for a tow-truck company to pull the cab from the canal.