Britains Oldest Drivers

[iCraig]

Did anyone just watch it on BBC1?

I was shocked to see the horrendous driving from most if not all of the participants!

One of the woman who was 93, kept mounting the kerb when driving and didn't use her indicators, she couldn't even walk unaided so how she thought she could drive I don't know!

My personal thinking on elderly people driving is I don't agree with it, and I reckon on reaching your 70th birthday your licence should be revoked totally no matter what!

[pwntifex]

Especially that wanker who wore his medals while driving and complaining about what tosspots the french were.
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[mazz]

When my grandmother went senile (yes senile) the Doctor wouldn't take her license off her because he thought she was safer behind a wheel than on a pavement. The police eventually banned her, however she forgot she had been banned and kept driving until we took the car off her, she then couldn't ever remember that she didn't have a car anymore

It is such a scary thought, I don't think license needs to be revoked at 70 but definately a much tighter check on who is driving and if the person is fit to drive

[SoND]

That's age discrimination, you can't do that.
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[Dischord]

Old people are retarded.
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[ram_doom]

Whereas some old people are great drivers... I see more newly passed nobheads I'd like to punch out than old gits.

Fuck this birthday has brought me into the age of bitterness
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[iCraig]

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[Itchy]

one day YOU too will be old and such a law will bite you in the ass,

a test lite or assessment might be in order, and or an assessment on a case by case basis since there were some bad aged drivers but what can't be said about any group?

I couldn't live without the bike now , if I was 70 and had it removed with no recourse I'd probably kill myself.

maybe what the government wants us to do.
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[Itchy]

also by the time we are 70 the retirement age will be like 135 , so hoiw the hell are we going to get to work?
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[ncrn]

in my opinion we should all have to retake our tests every 10 years, just for the simple matter that it will weed out all of the bad drivers off of the road.

sure its inconvinient but Id rather do that then have my bike trashed/me killed by a driver that isnt fit to be on the road.
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[Bendy]

Just think for a second that maybe 60 years ago some of these old drivers had the lightning reflexes required to plant a bouncing bomb smack on target into the Ruhr damn, thus damn well earning the right to have a pootle the wrong way down the fast lane of the M4.



Maybe.

[LustyLew]

[xlfive]

So far i havnt read about anyone on here admitting to being a poor driver/rider,so how can you judge other people's driving standards

The trouble is everyone who holds a licence thinks they are the best drivers/riders its like an addiction until you admit to your faults then this topic will always be around

[pwntifex]

[headlamp]

On a sample of two - I think as people get older & dodgery their driving becomes more erratic. My grandfather gave up driving at the age of 93, after hitting a car on a roundabout, not remembering that he should give way. My father in law, who is 78 is a dreadful driver - if he's not doing 20mph holding up the traffic he's doing 40mph down residential roads and can hardly walk anymore...ther comes a time in everyone's life when you just don't have the competencies to perform certain tasks - I doubt if I'll still be biking when I'm much beyond 60, as it is I'm 'slower' then a lot of the younger people who ride sports bikes!!
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Using a mobile phone while driving a car should be made a capital offence!

[bazza]

Funny how some people will go ballistic over some minor infringement of bikers' rights, but are quite happy to take away other people's rights "because they're old".


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