[Margaret Pilkington]

To Ossywarrior - yes I understood what you were getting at and was agreeing with you.

To Tina - that has been your experience, but that does not mean that all drivers who are elderly are like that.

My husband is nowhere near seventy, he has 45 years of driving experience, on two wheels and on four wheels, he has a clean licence, drives safely and competently.if it were any different I would be telling him that it was time to hang up the car keys. Surely I am not the only one on this planet who would do the decent, safe thing.

Many of the elderly drivers you comment on, will have been driving for something in the region of 50 years......they will have adapted to the changes in traffic and also in more complicated vehicles.
It is wrong to single out drivers purely on grounds of their age.