Poor training and testing is, unfortunately, missing on the list of causes for road accidents. This week four candidates failed the driving test because they could not explain what a caravan was. The model town question was also amazing and tricky such that it required a high IQ to move the toy car from point A to point B. In short the test was intimidatory and therefore not a competence test geared to test candidates on rules and safe road procedures. If indeed a certain level of intelligence is necessary for a driving test, then I would prefer a question like 'what is a matatu?', rather than 'what is a caravan?' Competence questions would be like, 'when should one not overtake?' or what is the procedure for changing a lane?', but these are rarely asked. It is quite disheartening when a trainer spends so much time and effort to train a student how to drive safely and is failed because if irrelevant test questions.