Learning how to drive a car for the very first time can be a daunting, nerve-wracking experience.

There’s the whole thing about going the speed limit, braking smoothly, merging into another lane, parallel parking, remember to put on your blinker, accidentally turning onto a road where British Challenger 2 tanks are steaming along and then getting crushed by one of them because they can’t stop their 62-metric-ton metal war machine in time to not crunch the compact learner car like a hungry kid crunches the tinfoil that formerly held a tunafish sandwich and …

… wait, what?

Believe it or not, this is a real fear. Real only because it happened the other day in Lippe, Germany, when an 18-year-old student driver from Detmold didn’t see a line of tanks coming down a street called Panzeringstrasse (which translated literally means “tank ring road”) and drove right in their path. The operator of the tank, a 24-year-old British military gentleman, wasn’t able to stop the behemoth on a dime and subsequently ran over the small educational vehicle’s front (as you can see in the photo above).

Thankfully, the driver of the car suffered no physically injuries. Psychologically though?

Might be a fair amount of cab rides in her not-so-distant future.

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