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Show 30 Fail Tests On Driving In One Month The average applicant for a state license to operate a motor vehicle in Utah has "driver'! know how, but doeant apply It. That was the conclusion Monday Mon-day of Dave Campbell, chief state driver examiner. He had Just finished fin-ished analysing 34.318 road testa which he and other examiners have given license applicants since Feb. 1, 1949. Individuals who took the testa had first completed written examinations. ex-aminations. A total of 7800 failed the road tests during the nine months. October road test failures were higher than for any month this year. They were 90.31 of 8219 persona who drove over the course under personal supervision of an examiner. The percentage of driving-failures lajjt month was nearly double the percentage of failures on written writ-ten test In the same period. But It was slightly lower than the 32.89 of failures on the chauffeur's chauf-feur's road testa, conceded to be more rigid than that given individual indi-vidual drivers. "The pattern of such failures In October is not much different than in other months only that a greater great-er percentage of persons flunked lit '"" "- "- tn any other month this year," Mr. Campbell said. The spread between 16.88 failures fail-ures on written examinations and 30.51 failures on road tests last month was interpreted by the examiner ex-aminer as indicative that most applicants ap-plicants readily absorb driving know how from written Instructions Instruc-tions and rules they study. "But they are at a loss when It comes to applying their knowledge on actual practice," Mr. Campbell concluded. " |