Driving Age

[Connemmara]

What age do you think a person should stop driving. thanks

[NOX]

Depends on the person- my 70 odd year old mother in law is perfectly road savvy still and drives like Michael Schumacher but there is someone in the village in their mid 50's who really needs to give it up.

[Baldric]

Don't think an age limit is the thing, depends on a persons individual mental and physical fitness!

[netibiza]

Here in Spain we have to have medicals every 5 yrs after 45yrs of age to renew our licences. Then after 70 we have to do it yearly. Eyetest, BP, driving 2 cars up different roads at the same time (machine) and guessing when dots are appearing out of tunnels, all very exhausting!

[ummmm]

Depends on the person. I have a hairdressers across the road from me that old people tend to go to. Some of them should not be driving, it's painful to watch them trying to park.

[BlueToffee]

Some should give up before they start!

[commoner]

When they are off this mortal coil if they feel like it before that......time we stopped all this ageist malarky...in all walks of life. Some great people are put out to grass far too early IMO....

[EcclesCake]

It has nothing to do with age, just ability.

I have relatives who should have been off the road before they were 70 and others who I felt safe with still driving in their 90s.

[joko]

at whatever age they become dangerous.

no set age, but its fair to say that at about 70 people need to start checking themselves and make honest judgements.

my dad is 84 and although not had an accident, i really wish hed stop driving... he is erratic and sometimes drives well and other times like hes new to it!

[joeluke]

70.....how many accidents (sometimes fatal) involve elderly driver error?

Why can't pensioners use buses? They get free bus travel

[vulcan]

Joeluke, if there were buses available. I live in a small village and the nearest town 12 miles away. The first bus leaves my village at 8-30, it's the school bus and the first bus from the town back to my village is at 4-15. I am not going to hang about the town for 8 hours.

[joko]

vulcan - you can't defend and allow blind or incompetent people driving, just because they dont want to have to wait for a bus!

if someone is unsafe on the road then they are going to have to wait!

it just tough sh!t.