older drivers

[culzean]

This should be interesting to the majority ( ? ) of people on this forum.

Article from our local Honda dealer

https://www.jthughes.co.uk/Blog/View/Advice-for-Shropshire-Motorists-as-Number-of-Older-Drivers-Banned-from-the-Roads-Rise/12049?utm_campaign=10408434_JT%20Hughes%20Newsletter%20Apr%202019&utm_medium=email&utm_source=JT%20Hughes%20Marketing

[Jocko]

I like how, after you read it it takes you to an advert, "Buy a new Honda Jazz".  Should, but doesn't say, "The old duffer's car".

[culzean]

I like how, after you read it it takes you to an advert, "Buy a new Honda Jazz".  Should, but doesn't say, "The old duffer's car".

I like the stats that older drivers are actually safer than younger ones ( mind you they do less miles on average ).

Article also says that if they took people off the road for being dangerous under 25s would be their target group.

[peteo48]

Quite topical for me at the moment - not personally but a neighbour across the road has had his licence removed. I know he suffers from leukemia which in itself wouldn't lead to a ban but possibly a complication. A former colleague told me that he is facing a ban. He had an operation for cataracts and it didn't do the business so there is some suspicion he is in the early stages of macular degeneration. He's 76.

When we downsized 6 years ago, ability to exist easily without a car was a crucial factor in choice of location. We are on a bus route, relatively near to 3 train stations and within a taxi ride to 2 airports. We could manage quite well without a car although I wouldn't want to.

[guest7494]

When we downsized 6 years ago, ability to exist easily without a car was a crucial factor in choice of location. We are on a bus route, relatively near to 3 train stations and within a taxi ride to 2 airports. We could manage quite well without a car although I wouldn't want to.

With ref to your above comments. Peteo48
This is exactly the criteria we applied when we downsized 4 years ago.
But am fortunately still driving with eye sight that is above the required standards  per my  ophthalmologist, this is of course with the relevant spectacles, so I consider myself very fortunate.
When I see the escapades of some drivers I  wonder how they get to there destinations,all of them in a hurry to get somewhere fast .
The majority of accidents are not accidents at all they are lazy people rolling out of bed each morning with not enough time to drive sensibly  to there destinations. These are usually not aged drivers with the experience of time.
Time being the operative word
Sorry just another of my rambles.

[Jocko]

I had a works colleague who had cataracts in both eyes, couldn't see his hand in front of his face, and drove right up until his operations (including towing a caravan EVERY weekend).

[madasafish]

I am only  71 years old and drive safely everywhere at 10 mph... it's the queues of traffic behind who keep hooting that annoy me....

[guest7494]

I am only  71 years old and drive safely everywhere at 10 mph... it's the queues of traffic behind who keep hooting that annoy me....

Thank you I really had a good laugh.