The errors were spotted in a video posed on the show’s Twitter page.
The video was a feature on Billy Monger, more commonly known as Billy Whizz, who was back behind the steering wheel after losing both his legs in a racing car crash last year.
The footage showed the 18-year-old’s return to driving as he explained how he had learnt to drive in his prosthetics.
However, the captions that ran alongside had not one, but two huge mistakes in them.
When it came down to describing how he now used hand-pulled levers and brakes to operate the vehicle, the text read “leavers” and “break” instead of the correct spellings.
Those angered by the mistake made their fury known by replying on the social network.
“Leavers and break? Sorry but we expect better than this from the BBC. Did you have a work experience child write this for you? Fortunately this doesn’t detract from how inspirational Billy’s determination achieve his ambition despite his accident really is,” one viewer complained.
While another fumed: “I missed ‘leavers’, as I was so incensed at the insensitive misuse of ‘break’. After all, he couldn’t brake in time to avoid breaking his car last April, resulting in him losing his legs. Why does nobody check & recheck captions? On the broadcast, the captions aren’t there.”
A third added: “Levers and brake!! Deplorable spelling @BBCBreakfast!! But great to see #billywhizz back in the driving seat!”
However, the mistakes did not make it on to the screen, as BBC Breakfast did not feature the captions in the broadcast.
The programme suffered a similar embarrassment last month when they had misspelt “accommodation” as “accomodation” live on air.
BBC Breakfast airs weekdays at 6am on BBC One.
