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Originally Posted by BLACKBURN RAVER
personally i think that after you reach retirement age you should be made to have a medical every year to deem you fit enough to drive and be made to sit a re-test every two years, at a minimal cost, i hear what your saying about the young uns but to drive slowly is just as dangerous if not more so, nothing worse than being stuck behind an old dear doing 15-20 in a 30 or 30 in a 50,
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Everyone is happy to quote the doddering old lady scenario when commenting on older drivers.......this morning I have witnessed 7 people of varying ages(but none of them appeared to be of retirement age) using mobile phones whilst driving......one of these people was driving a very large lorry whilst going around a corner.
We are all heading towards becoming an old person.......and yet we talk about these older people as though they were a sub species, of lower intellect and intelligence.
Older people are very easily isolated....and to suggest that a medical every year and re-testing every two years......this will take much planning and resourcing(not to mention the cost of adminstration...paid by whom exactly), and will intimidate and isolate older people more t han is necessary.
Can anyone tell me the last time they read of an accident of this nature?
Yet we hear of drivers who kill under the influence of drugs and alcohol, or recklessness and this is accepted. We don't ask these drivers to suspend their activities and re-take a test.
You assume that all older drivers are not fit to drive......too big a generalisation in my opinion....and it is just my opinion.