Elderly drivers causing accidents, test them every 5 years
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Old people on the roads
Recently I was re-fuelling my car at a garage after a 12 hour shift. I very tired and basically just wanted to get back home. Along came an old lady, she missed her brake pedal and rammed her car into the back of mine.
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Personally, I think all drivers over the age of 60 should to re-take a test at least every five years, perhaps at a subsidized rate. My grandad who is 80 is not fit to drive a car both medically and mentally, yet he still insists on driving.
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| 18-4-2010 | Again the speed limit myth 'stuck behind someone on a 60 mph single carriageway'.So someone is doing 50 i.e. below the maximum speed limit, that's correct. 60 is the absolute top speed not the desired speed.Speed limits are set to embrace a range of lower desirable speeds,the idea is that when you get to the limit you are getting to dangerous territory.Similarly 35 should be the norm in a 40 mph limit and 25 in a 30 mph limit | Realist |
| 14-4-2010 | The RAC Foundation have conducted research which reveals that older drivers are generally safer than younger ones and disputes the need for retests to be age specific however one commentator believed that everyone should be retested at regular intervals regardless of age.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/8618992.stm
(The commentator should know what he is talking about, being one of the greatest racing drivers of all time - Sir Stirling Moss). | Congo |
| 14-4-2010 | Oh contrare my friend, yes there are some of the older generation who are generally not 'up to speed' and they are usually weekend drivers any way, along with many younger 'weekend drivers' who just dont cut it.
As an older generation driver, with 44 years behind the wheel, day in day out, still driving 10-15,000 miles per year, in three different vehicles, from a Suzuki Swift, toaa Ford Galaxy and sometimes with a mercedes sprinter with a caravan in tow, still driving abroad, taking trips to rally school, and showing a clean pair of heels to many a young one, methinks that you are generalising too much.
I often see discurtious and inattentive behaviour from the younger and the young, assuming that they are the only ones allowed on the road.
So as I see it, as mentioned by an earlier writer, age is not the problem, attitude and lack of experience is | slowracer |
| 13-4-2010 | As one of the 'War Babies', I can tell you I do not hang about at 8mph and would love to leave you in my rear view mirror ! I have a 'tweeked' Honda Civic 1.8 vti and a 2 litre Vauxhall Sportshatch. I pride myself on my driving and get annoyed at incompetent drivers whatever their age. Remember that young impatient drivers can be just as dangerous as older / slower ones.
Thank you Chris for the right analysis. p.s. I passed my test in 1957 ! | Copper 3T |
| 15-3-2010 | Old people still think the wars on ,drive at 8mph and save your couponed petrol,there are a real liability,people get so frustrated behind them they take silly chances,to overtake,can t they come out between the hours of 9pm & 6am (probably not because I need to read peoples friend & have a cocoa | love em really |
| 11-3-2010 | Im a mimber of the gays agenst bad driving core. I spend my life talking to little cute children about how dangerous the roads realy are. I have a small luring disability becuse of a bad driver thet hit me wen I was young. you ceep up the good work | Jack Mehoff |
| 09-2-2010 | Drunks I can agree with aswel as joy riders. Both have no regard for life or property.
Boy racers yes. GIRL racers, yes.
I don't label one sex or age or race. I just maintain the premis that NO ONE can drive properly.
Treat everyone like an idiot with no driving skill or sense. As I expect to be treated by other drivers too.
It is not fair to label one group of people as morons that can't drive. I own a Golf VR6 Turbo with 430bhp but I only use that power extensively when I go to track days or to 1/4 mile drag strips like Santa Pod. It is also used to overtake people safely, not by flooring it either.
That doesn't make me a boy racer or rich boy racer.
Nobody is perfect and no one can drive to this "properly" standard.
This is a simple case of people that favour their own driving skills, witness someone else fail at trying to drive "properly" and then think they are better. | Chris. |
| 20-1-2010 | Congo, leave me alone you sad case - seriously.
get it right,
Yes we should get rid of joy riders, drunks, boy racers but its catching them in the act is it not?? however all old drivers are on record at the DVLA. Instead of trying to fine everyone for everything they should submit their names so they can be bundled into the night bus and thrown into the big wood chipper.
I cant be the only one thinking this. | karlosthejackel |
| 29-12-2009 | You talk about Pensioner’s drive the wrong way down a motorway or drive into the back of a parked car on a petrol forecourt; they could just as easily plough over a child, someone’s daughter or son?
But that’s just what young idiotic boy racers are doing.
And your drunk drivers, joy riders, they kill more innocent people than any pensioner’s do. | get it right |
| 22-11-2009 | Hello Mark, I wish to make an offer of a free drive in my car (if you have got the bottle) just to prove to you all the older drivers shouldn't be penalised buy a few, there should be some sort of simulater test that drivers must take at 70 each year I feel would be a good idea, I must agree
some get me hot under the collar at times and look as if they are on another "Planet" (bless e'm)
and they are a pain in the butt By the way if you accept my offer, I must warn you I'm 73 and have
an oxygen cyliner for company 16hrs a day, but I don't hang about and observe the "Highway Code" to the best of my ability and held a licence since I was sixteen. CHEERS. | Thatcham Tony |
| 05-11-2009 | Why restrict the 5 year re-test to just the over 60's.
All drivers should face a 5 year re-test, then we might just improve the overall standard of driving on the roads. | Brian |
| 23-7-2009 | karlos
"Stalking"?
You flatter yourself.
I am sorry if this disappoints you but I am not that way inclined and as for confidences and relying on your judgement, well I must decline, thank you all the same.
However I agree with you about returning to the subject, if not the object. | Congo |
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