Witness Terry Thelwell told ABC Radio Sydney he and his wife were only about two-metres away from where the car landed.
“My wife and I were sitting having lunch on a chair down below on the beach and heard this almighty roar and looked to our left and heard screaming,” he said.
“The car … came hurtling across the grass on the promenade at Balmoral, I don’t know how she didn’t hit anybody,”
“It hit the wall at such speed and the car somersaulted over the wall, smashed the wall completely, it’s a hundred-year-old wall, somersaulted on the beach and landed basically two-metres from us.”
“P-plate”, is that something they give to morons, so they’re easily identified?
Sort of. it stands for ‘probationary’. Drivers in Australia need to display “P Plates” for the first few years after they are licensed. I think “P1” is the first year and P2 the second and third years. There are additional restrictions also:
NSW (where this occurred) is the most restrictive on new drivers. P-platers must adhere to the following rules:
Thanks for a comprehensive answer!
Cheers from Norway
Provisional* https://www.nsw.gov.au/driving-boating-and-transport/driver-and-rider-licences/driver-licences/provisional-p1-licence
Amusingly enough it’s “Probationary” in Victoria… :)
https://www.vicroads.vic.gov.au/licences/your-ps/p1-and-p2-probationary-licence-restrictions
Wow! It sure is, sorry for needlessly correcting you
All good. I think it’s funny. Another stupid thing that Melbourne and Sydney evidently can’t agree on. At least they both start with “P”. It’s a small miracle that they don’t have different letters on the plates and make them change at the border.