![]() ![]() Pasadena’s fail rate is partly because it’s used as a site for testing drivers of big rigs and buses, as well as regular drivers, says branch manager Rawlin Mull. ![]() Almost 30% of those who take the road test in Pasadena fail, significantly higher than the average of between 22% and 25% in 175 state offices. That was up from five in 1988 and four in 1987. ![]() Last year, about 30,000 people took the road test at the Pasadena office, resulting in nine accidents-and countless near misses, according to examiners. “She told me she had never driven a car in her life before. “Once, I flunked a woman after she had driven a block,” says Greg Doherty, a 17-year veteran who is usually given the office’s hard cases. The urgency to get a driver’s license in Southern California, where cars often represent the only means of getting to work or play, brings some unlikely applicants to the Pasadena DMV office. But you never know what you’ll get from those pulling into the road test line behind the building, examiners say.
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