"compulsory age-appropriate retesting every 3 years once a driver turns 70" - Petition
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hopless500
Trundling along
- Location
- not-as-flat-as-you-think Norfolk
I'd rather there was a petition to ban drivers with over 12 points. And I mean BAN them. Not let them go on and on accumulating bloody points. The system is a joke.
Drago
Legendary Member
- Location
- Suburban Poshshire
Make the threshold six points, and make a ban mean a ban.
mjr
Comfy armchair to one person & a plank to the next
- Location
- mostly Norfolk, sometimes Somerset
Seems a bit stupid to put it on the hard-to-use change.org instead of the official http://petition.parliament.uk site.
Also seems ageist. Let's retest everyone as appropriate.
Also seems ageist. Let's retest everyone as appropriate.
I was all for signing it until I read your post and it made me change my mind. I still firmly believe and have always believed something should be done. My wife used to work for a well known optician and regularly she would tell me about older customers with very poor eyesight such that she would ask how they were getting home. The response was nearly always "im driving dear".
mjr
Comfy armchair to one person & a plank to the next
- Location
- mostly Norfolk, sometimes Somerset
Well there's been https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/105775 but it's only got a month to go and is a looooong way short of reaching 10,000 signatures.
numbnuts
Legendary Member
- Location
- Gone over the hill and far away
Mandatory eye test every two years for everybody
Profpointy
Legendary Member
Can there really be that many people whose eyesight is so bad they can't drive? Most bad driving is crass stupidity, ignorance or downright murderous agression and even "failure to see" is more likely "failure to look" or "did see but don't actually give a f.@*"
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glasgowcyclist
Charming but somewhat feckless
- Location
- Scotland
Everybody? Or everybody who drives?
Saluki
World class procrastinator
- Location
- ...Norwich over the water.
I completely agree with this.
I know several over 70 year olds who are excellent drivers, not erratic or doddery at all and I have no worries about getting in a car with them. I don't think that it's an age thing that makes a bad driver but an ability thing.
byegad
Legendary Member
- Location
- NE England
Older drivers may well have physical problems that limit their ability, at 66 I know my reactions what they were 40 years ago! But the big problem is younger drivers, not necessarily just through their test, who drive like they own the road and disdain signalling, road positioning or any allowance for other users. I'm all in favour of retests for everyone, and making medical staff, including opticians responsible for reporting drivers who may not be fit enough to drive. That first, before a blind 'retest at 70 policy', seems more likely to make our roads safer.
Drago
Legendary Member
- Location
- Suburban Poshshire
Which age range currently has the highest death kill slaughter rate? Surely it should be they who get retested etc?
snorri
Legendary Member
- Location
- East coast, up a bit.
Some people will suggest anything in order to get their Specsavers shares to give a better return
Yes, everybody. There are too many people around for whom the edge of the visible universe consists of only two cubic meters of personal space, and anything outside this space they are oblivious too. People who walk straight out of shops into a busy high street without looking and then nearly colliding with others. People who walk straight towards me forcing me to swerve at the last minute (last minute so they haven't time to counter the move and bump into me). People who walk up to a doorway and stand in it completely blocking passage for everyone else. People who choose to walk six inches past me when I am trying to lock my bike instead of using the adjacent 200 square metres of empty 10 metre wide shared use space. Mobile morons who are too busy going yatter yatter yatter swipe swipe swipe *BUMP* oops sorry mate didn't see you there. In fact, just give them a punch in the face every time they act like careless thoughtless bastards and they might eventually evolve to have a modicum of spatial awareness, which will hopefully stick with them in those times when they choose to drive instead of walk.
