Morning all, grey and cold here, but no frost overnight. I don't think that age should be the reason to stop driving, more what state of health a person is in. Both of us needed to change driving licenses to French ones and had to have a medical before it would be granted. Needless to say we were given quite a going over before the paper was signed. There are people I know in their sixties who I believe are getting unsafe and others in their late eighties who drive perfectly safely for both their good and others. What I would be in favour of is health tests every five years once a person is 60.
The limit should be solely fitness to drive safely not age - some 80-somethings are better than 60-somethings! Edit - Sorry didn't see ofh's reply above with which I agree.
You could argue that some 14 year olds would be better than 17 year olds too. The cost of administering tests etc would be high - but I suppose could be chargeable. Even so the reaction times and ability to glance behind, twist turn etc are severely reduced even in the fittest 80 to 90 year old. I am sorry for you mum Yorkie but if her accident had resulted in the injury or death of someone else are we saying it is just a shame. I live in an area with a very aged population and someof the driving examples I see of old people are horrendous. Upper and lower age limits are needed
Sorry to hear about your mum Yorkie - my late Father in Law had quite poor eye sight in his later years, but a doctor passed him fit to drive.Eventually I persuaded him to give up driving using a simple economic argument, it was cheaper to get a taxi or a bus for the small number of journeys he used to make than the cost of running a car.
Sorry, I'm a bit behind on this one. Wishing your mum all the best, yorkshire. I hope she's getting over the shock.
Gandy, you know I love you Seriously, an awful lot of our Norwich posters would do well to read on this board, how to disagree with one another without it descending into a free-for-all slanging match, obviously with a large group of people, there will be differences of opinion, that doesn't give you the right to call each other names, just tell your view and your reason for holding that view, then agree to differ if you can find no compromise!
Morning Brian, talking of goals, your Golden Boys took our share yesterday, we found them difficult to come by!
