Driving Age

[Canary42]

We hear a lot about upper age limit, but here's why the lower limit should be raised to 25 (or perhaps a limit on engine size for first 5 years).

A terrible waste of life.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c99xmzey88vo

 

[bhg481]

It's no more compulsory to be stupid under 25 than it is to be senile over the age of 70. Why should all people in an age category be punshed/deprived because some are irresponsible?

[Old_Geezer]

The incident has been mentioned earlier. 

 

But you don't need to be under 25 to be an idiot.

[johnk]

Supposed to be a plan to limit the age of passengers carried by young drivers so they can't encourage stupid driving

[barry1010]

Plenty of ambulance, police, bus, lorry, van drivers under 25. Plenty of very responsible young adults.

Plenty of over 25s drink and drug driving too.

[DDIL]

There are far more under 25's that drive safely without incident.

I personally don't want to limit drivers over a certain age but i do want them to have to be retested.  I nearly came a cropper from an elderly driver the other day, pulled out at a roundabout very slowly and far too late, it was a good job that my brakes and the car behind be brakes were spot on.

They need to do something about limiting engine size perhaps for over and under certain ages.

[DDIL]

I would caveat that with unless you have professional driving qualifications.

[Cloverjo]

Terribly sad. My heart goes out the parents of the dead boys. But, why has a teenager got a car like that? 
Get them a Mini or Nissan Micra. The boy would still be an idiot, but he'd do less damage. 

[youngmafbog]

Why would professional driving qualifications (older or younger) make the difference?

We should be looking at restricting people who pass their test to a certain BHP and no carrying of passengers for a while, similar to motorbikes.  Most are of course becasue they cant afford.  At the other end of the spectrum a lightweight re-test.

Nothing will ever be perfect but that sort of thing will help.