Wrong way car driver crashes
How on earth are 87 year olds allowed to keep holdnof their licences?
I reckon after a set age you should have to go each year for a hour or so with an instructor to check your safe, not a test as such but just a general yeah your fine.
but RIP to them.
trubster:
How on earth are 87 year olds allowed to keep hold of their licences?
and where on earth was he going at 2am?
My Granddad is 93 and only gave up his eventually earlier this year after a knock. We’ve been on at him to stop for a while, but he was too stubborn proud and afraid of losing his independence.
I`ve just given my 81 year old mother directions to get out of the chaos this has caused, and she has followed them to the letter, getting home with Lewis Hamilton type speed, she has just text me to say thanks… 
war1974:
I reckon after a set age you should have to go each year for a hour or so with an instructor to check your safe, not a test as such but just a general yeah your fine.but RIP to them.
I quite agree but not just people over a certain age.
Every driver should be assessed every 3 to 5 years.
The basic tests we pass are far from enough to maintain any sort of decent standard.
Bad habits and drivers forgetting are just two of the problems that lead to all the bad driving.
Driver-Once-More:
trubster:
How on earth are 87 year olds allowed to keep hold of their licences?and where on earth was he going at 2am?
Maybe he had a illness and he didn’t know his self where he was going
You just knew the ageists would be singing from their ivory towers in no time, the same ones who won’t be quite so vociferous when they’re in their dotage and their only (safe) lifeline to freedom from the urban hell that will be their reality is their own transport.
Stanley Mitchell:
getting home with Lewis Hamilton type speed, she has just text me to say thanks…
…whilst doing a 90mph drift and rolling a ■■■. Fair play to your mum I say.
hanson:
Driver-Once-More:
trubster:
How on earth are 87 year olds allowed to keep hold of their licences?and where on earth was he going at 2am?
Maybe he had a illness and he didn’t know his self where he was going
[/quote]There was an incident that I witnessed in town a few years ago, an elderly (though admittedly younger than 83) van driver pulled out of a business premises and went down a one way street the wrong way striking several parked vehicles. Folk were screaming that he was drunk as his voice was slurred, actually he was having a diabetic hypo through lack of food so the body and mind can react strangely. No doubt all will become clear eventually through witnesses, but not before the TNUKCIS department have every driver over the age of 65 stripped of their independance and clamped in irons should they dare to get into a driving seat!
Pete.
In 2007 I had a 103 year old bloke hit me in my Transit, it cut his peugeot 205 in half and did £3,000 worth of damage to my van.
He walked away from it unhurt. He was apparently always bumping into other vehicles.
RIP to the people involved today.
Dave the Renegade:
He was apparently always bumping into other vehicles.
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I’m not one of the “string 'em up brigade”, but I don’t believe the system of voluntarily giving up a licence works. We’ve all seen the old dears pootling along the motorway at 45 (usually in a Nissan Micra). The sad truth is that not all of our senior citizens are safe on the road. Regular retesting past (for example) 70 would keep everyone safe.
Be careful what you wish for, next thing it’ll be compulsory retesting of lorry drivers, and given the idiocy of some i’m only surprised it hasn’t come yet, dunno how many attempts it would take me to pass again with coming up to 40 years of bad habits to eradicate… 
albion1971:
war1974:
I reckon after a set age you should have to go each year for a hour or so with an instructor to check your safe, not a test as such but just a general yeah your fine.but RIP to them.
I quite agree but not just people over a certain age.
Every driver should be assessed every 3 to 5 years.
The basic tests we pass are far from enough to maintain any sort of decent standard.
Bad habits and drivers forgetting are just two of the problems that lead to all the bad driving.
+1
Juddian:
Be careful what you wish for, next thing it’ll be compulsory retesting of lorry drivers, and given the idiocy of some i’m only surprised it hasn’t come yet, dunno how many attempts it would take me to pass again with coming up to 40 years of bad habits to eradicate…
and there should be a full test for any no britain that comes here to drive a truck no matter where they come from
Burnley…you are talking out of your arse…whatever next !! so brits are not allowed to deliver to other countries then, according to your wild idea…your in the wrong job mate…some councils are looking for road sweepers …thats right up your street ( sorry about the pun folks )
Some elderly drivers can cope quite well.in fact more so than some of the truck drivers i`ve seen on the roads…I am almost 70 and still drive trucks across europe, i have my faculties and am very confident in my skills, i have yet to forget which way onto a motorway i should go, and which carriageway i should follow, and that includes abroad so dont condemn the old folk to a life of the bus pass for some of us are much better than you think, and have forgotten more than what you know…sorry if it offends…Juddian summed it up very well too.
truckyboy, to clarify I mean an hours assessment for people - not as in a test but a bill of health if you like from someone qualified (even if they give tips on bad habits and how to avoid them etc.) I am not looking for people being banned from driving but more a way of improving the standards and maybe preventing things like this happening. if you actually did pass a test at 80 years old how much have modern vehicles and the roads changed?
we now have 1.0 turbos that are quicker than what was doing in a 1.6 and I passed in 1991 not 1901.
the maoster:
Stanley Mitchell:
getting home with Lewis Hamilton type speed, she has just text me to say thanks……whilst doing a 90mph drift and rolling a ■■■. Fair play to your mum I say.
I bet she dropped her coffee.