{"id":87583,"date":"2026-04-09T16:21:03","date_gmt":"2026-04-09T16:21:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/?p=87583"},"modified":"2026-04-09T16:21:03","modified_gmt":"2026-04-09T16:21:03","slug":"nigerian-migrant-who-twice-failed-his-driving-test-killed-pensioner-in-crash-after-exploiting-learner-loophole-inquest-hears","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/2026\/04\/09\/nigerian-migrant-who-twice-failed-his-driving-test-killed-pensioner-in-crash-after-exploiting-learner-loophole-inquest-hears\/","title":{"rendered":"Nigerian migrant who twice failed his driving test killed pensioner in crash after exploiting learner loophole, inquest hears"},"content":{"rendered":"<span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span><div id=\"articleIconLinksContainer\">\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2026\/04\/09\/13\/107769229-15718863-image-m-3_1775739161361.jpg\" alt=\"Susan Whittles, 70, died at the scene while her husband had to be airlifted to hospital\" \/><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div data-mol-fe-article-body=\"true\">\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">A Nigerian national who had twice failed his UK driving test killed a pensioner while behind the wheel after taking advantage of a learner loophole, an inquest has heard. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/article-15718863\/Nigerian-migrant-failed-driving-test-killed-pensioner-learner-loophole.html\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span>A Nigerian national who had twice failed his UK driving test killed a pensioner while behind the wheel after taking advantage of&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":87584,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[154],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-87583","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-health"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Timothy-Kusemi.jpg","amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87583","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=87583"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87583\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":87585,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87583\/revisions\/87585"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/87584"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=87583"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=87583"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=87583"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}