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OAP driving
I saw an old lady get into her car and reverse. As she did so she scraped her car all the way down the side of some other guy's parked car. As she drove off he chased her, on foot, and got level with her window, she saw him and sped off.
Another time I was in a queue of slow moving traffic and I was positioned opposite a T-junction. Another old lady came out of the T-junction and headed straight for me without seeing me. I had to speed up and get close to the car in front and the woman behind me had to jam her brakes on as the old lady just wedged herself into the queue.
Either I'm a magnet for doddering old blind-as-a-bat drivers, or they seem to have found an excuse to get their own way on the road, or, more likely, they're all over the place happily winding up competent road users in blissful ignorance.
Although there is no compulsory re-test over a certain age, should there be one, or should people be stopped from driving all togther beyond that certain age?
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For more on marking an answer as the "Best Answer", please visit our FAQ.As licenced drivers, I reckon everyone should have to sit a re-test every couple of years or so to prove competence and ensure the required standard of driving, regardless of age. If you have been the cause of an accident or gain more than one minor motoring offence, your licence should be revoked until you can prove that you can drive to the required standard.
Decent drivers would have nothing to worry about, eh...
Keep well clear of the following:
- A car being driven by a person wearing a hat.
- A car (often red) being driven by a person who is smoking and not wearing a seat belt.
- A car being driven by a person who throws rubbish out of the window.
- A car being driven by a person talking on a mobile phone.
My Dad is 70 & is a much better driver than most younger people I see. However I did see an man who must have been 75+ driving a meals on wheels car have 4 near misses in the space of 10 seconds yesterday (mounting the pavement & nearly hitting me, reversing into the path of on-coming car,driving onto the pavement towards me again, pulling out in front of another car, then driving with the accelerator to the floor through a red light!!!)
It is the agression of drivers that upsets me & drivers making mobile phone calls. Please stop it!
I think a twenty year licence instead of the forty year would be practical and sensible. Roads, cars and driving all change over time.
Some people over 70 had grandfather rights and did not have to take a test when they were first introduced. Some of these are still very good drivers though (cheers Dad!).
My Gran is 90 next January and still driving. She treated herself to a brand new Mini Cooper in Silver last year which caused much amusement in the show room. She is a good driver and always keeps to the speed limit which seems to wind some people up a great deal as they think someone in a car like she is driving is bound to be a speedy.
Her only problem is forgetting where the car is parked in big supermarket car parks, then she has to get a nice looking young man to help her find the right car and their face when they see what car she stops at. LOL
Keep driving Nanna. XXX
Found the figures for Scotland here:
http://www.scotland.gov.uk/library3/transport/ras99-35.asp
drivers over 60 accounted for 8.8% of accidents
However in order to make sense of these you really need to know what percentage of journeys were made by the over 60's - I'd guess it was less than 8.8% but I don't know