A TERRIFIED mum has taken 1,000 driving lessons but has never sat a test because she passes out behind the wheel — with fear.

       Isabelle Stedman’s problem is so bad she breaks down in tears, shakes and loses consciousness.

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       47-year-old Isabelle Stedman has been trying to pass her driving test for 30 years Credit: SWNS 3

       Isabelle is so scared of driving that she loses consciousness behind the wheel

       The 47-year-old has been trying to pass for 30 years — but each time it ends badly, with instructors often having to grab the wheel to save her when she blacks out.

       Mum-of-two Isabelle has spent tens of thousands of pounds on lessons since she started, aged 17.

       Her phobia comes on despite never -having been in a car crash. And it peaks when she encounters her ultimate -terror — roundabouts.

       Desperate Isabelle has gone through seven different instructors and tried an intensive driving course — and even hypnotists.

       The supermarket worker said: “Still, whenever I get in a car it feels like I’ve never been in a car before.

       “I don’t understand it, but it’s like I get so anxious and overwhelmed that my brain cuts out and I lose consciousness for a few seconds.

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       “When I wake up, we’re at the side of the road because the instructor has had to grab the wheel.”

       Isabelle says she is desperate to drive so she can take her daughter to university and visit distant family.

       She added: “My children will probably both pass their tests before me. I can’t help but feel I’ve missed out.”

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       She has spent tens of thousands of pounds on lessons since she started learning when she was just 17

       Doctors have been unable to explain her phobia and it has even left her speculating whether she died in a car crash in a past life.

       Isabelle, from Ampthill, Beds, added: “Whenever I sit behind the wheel I tell myself, ‘I can do this’.

       “But seconds later I would be in floods of tears.

       “I had been doing a week-long intensive course. It was the most traumatising week of my life.”

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