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'Chinese female driver'

A rookie female Chinese driver is reinforcing the stereotype that women make for bad drivers, after she tragically killed both herself and her husband at a Ningbo, Zhejiang Province car park on Tuesday due to her brutal driving skills.

According to Southeast Commercial Daily, the woman, who got her driver's license a month ago, ran her husband into the back wall of a parking lot as he stood behind instructing her to reverse into the spot.

The wife, who was peering out the window as she backed up, ended up with her head pressed up against a side wall.

Local police said that the accident at Yangguang Mingdu residential car park occurred as a result of the woman's terrible command of the vehicle.

Web users blame the driving school for the incident.

"The school didn't even teach her the basics of how to ease into reverse by stepping on the gas lightly," one Weibo user said. "They should be held partly responsible for this."

"Local authorities should establish a system to link the performance of first-year drivers to the ratings of driving schools; the schools should be punished and rewarded accordingly," another Weibo user said.

Web users shared guesses on how the accident happened. "She must have hit the gas instead of the brake. That's why rookie drivers should start on manual before switching to automatic," said a Weibo user.

8 days not good enough

Beijing only met air quality standards for eight days in May, the Ministry of Environmental Protection said, sparking new rounds of concerns among Web users about the pollution hurting the capital.

The ten cities suffering from the worst air quality in China include Shijiazhuang, capital of Hebei Province; Jinan, capital of Shandong Province; Beijing and Tianjin. Six of the cities on the top ten list are in Hebei Province, according to Xinhuanet.

Beijing residents spent more days inhaling smog in May than in April, the statistics showed, with the city meeting air quality standards for 62.1 percent of the days in April, but only 25.8 percent in May. An expert quoted by Xinhua said that Beijing's air quality is expected to worsen in June.

The statistics have left Web users feeling pessimistic.

"I'll just try to live my life every day. Since I eat toxic food and inhale toxic air all the time, it's only a matter of time before I get cancer," said Sina Weibo user fevath2011.

Others were "discouraged" to learn that the air quality was still so poor after months of efforts by officials.

"I always hear about 'new environmental policies' coming out, but the air quality has only gotten worse. How pathetic!" said a Weibo user.

Global Times