24-10-2015, 07:18 PM
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Originally Posted by toffee
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most older drivers are aware ' and yes they can cause danger on the rds 'it should be dealt individually..and most accidents are caused by young speed fanatics...who think every rd is theirs ....
Yes, strangely enough most accidents involve young inexperienced drivers.
We have many older drivers out here in the sticks, to be without a car is terrible.
They very rarely venture far from the village, drive slowly and really are not a big thing.
Remember, we are not far off being that age ourselves.
24-10-2015, 09:26 PM
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Originally Posted by Meg
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There used to be a man here (now deceased) the father of the local doctor who drove until he was in his 80s.Every day he would go into a small town for his daily newspaper driving at 10 mph until he reached the paper shop where he would stop the car in the middle of the road and get out with no attempt to park it
Everyone had to drive around him I used to swear if I got behind him .
24-10-2015, 09:57 PM
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We had a thread on elderly drivers a couple of months back called - driving after 70, but I do agree with you Marj that there seems to be a speight of accidents caused by us oldies lately.I'd be lost without my car, but I hope I will be able to recognise when I am no longer safe to drive, and be sensible about it.
24-10-2015, 10:42 PM
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When my father in law got really bad we tried to convince him to give up.He was in his early 70's but his sight to the left was awful.
He was getting weak too, one day him and mum arrived at our house and mum mentioned feeling a bit sick. I asked why and she said because the car was so wiggely..
OH went to investigate and found that dad had changed a wheel and the wheel nuts were so slack that OH could undo them with his fingers.
Despite this when we telephoned the DVLA, the GP and the local police we were told that we should try to convince him to give up or else just wait until he had an accident!
25-10-2015, 07:01 AM
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In my opinion. most accidents are caused by younger people who don't seem to understand any road that I'm driving on is MINE! I've been driving for 52 years and have paid much more in registration, licence, insurance and other government charges than the young ones, ergo it's MY road. Get out of the way!
25-10-2015, 09:17 AM
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Originally Posted by Indigo
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I am in complete agreement. I do not think, as Spitfire said, that people know when they should give up - this is certainly not my own experience with older folk with the early stages of dementia. They simply are not aware that they are becoming a danger on the road, to themselves and other road users. To drive you need good reflexes and cognitive skills, and older drivers may not realise when theirs have begun to decline.
Indigo, you put it in a nutshell, I totally agree.
25-10-2015, 09:37 AM
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I think bad drivers come in all ages, those who MUST be in front of the car in front of them, the "my car is more powerful than your car" people, the boy racers, the girl racers, the doddering tortoises, all varieties really. Regarding medicals, here in Spain you have to have a "medical" every five years in order to renew your licence. The medical consists of reflex tests, great fun that, you get to play on machines, stopping a ball rolling through a tunnel, next one two balls on wiggly wavy roads, you have to keep the ball on the roads, difficult one that when your left hand automatically wants to go the same way as your right hand, the third one is not so difficult, you have to stop the ball at certain points on a fairly fast moving wavy road.Having done that next comes the eye test, very stringent too, this is followed by a pretty general medical, blood pressure, declaring what medications you take etc etc.
All this takes about an hour, each test is done by a different doctor, the final doctor gives you the medical certificate which you can either hand over at reception for them to obtain your licence for you, or you can take your certificate to Traffico yourself and obtain your new licence.
I´m not too sure because things change quickly here, but it used to be that once you reached 80 this medical had to be done every 2 years. Perhaps it still is, I´m not really sure.
28-10-2015, 05:12 PM
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2010 2011 2012 2013 2014Contributory factor reported for vehicle or pedestrian1,2,3 Number Per cent Number Per cent Number Per cent Number Per cent Number Per cent
Driver/Rider failed to look properly 50,847 42 51,946 44 51,168 45 48,038 44 53,259 46
Driver/Rider failed to judge other person’s path or speed 27,304 23 27,106 23 26,566 23 25,411 23 27,551 24
Driver/Rider careless, reckless or in a hurry 19,242 16 19,797 17 18,219 16 18,594 17 20,883 18
Poor turn or manoeuvre 16,453 14 17,101 14 17,306 15 16,542 15 18,916 16
Loss of control 18,180 15 17,091 14 16,282 14 15,260 14 15,350 13
Pedestrian failed to look properly 12,078 10 11,631 10 11,055 10 10,462 10 10,888 9
Slippery road (due to weather) 15,250 13 10,014 8 11,565 10 10,218 9 9,802 8
Sudden braking 9,662 8 9,517 8 8,938 8 8,271 8 8,768 8
Following too close 9,052 7 8,658 7 8,413 7 7,934 7 8,330 7
Travelling too fast for conditions 10,302 9 8,868 7 8,896 8 7,677 7 7,921 7
Total number of accidents1 120,827 100 118,403 100 114,696 100 108,934 100 115,673 100
No idea how this will look but speed is very low down on the list of contributory factors.
The original is here.
https://www.gov.uk/government/statis...butory-factors
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