Susan Dalgety: Charmaine Laurie shows women really are better drivers
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Their jokes are so old, and so bad, they are not worth repeating here, suffice to say the lads will now have to find a new subject for their schoolboy humour.
Step forward Charmaine Laurie, the now famous Lothian Buses driver whose superb driving skills avoided a tragedy last week.
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Hide AdFootage of her calm, professional handling of what could have been a very serious incident has gone viral.
The dashcam film of Charmaine coolly manoeuvring her double-decker round a car facing the wrong way, in a snowstorm, will stand as a permanent reminder of something we had all long suspected. Yes, even men.
Women really are better drivers.