If earning your stripes as a truck driver is crashing into the gutter, then a young man in Phnom Penh passed with flying colours yesterday.

New to the job, he was piloting his lorry on a narrow street in Stung Meanchey commune before veering into the adjacent open sewage area.

Bystanders and police came to help him from the foul smelling stream where, luckily, he wasn’t injured.

Rasmei Kampuchea