[Barrie Yates]

Originally Posted by Margaret Pilkington

Although I did not do the job fireman does......I was a Nurse and I did see some of the results of road accidents.....they were not pretty.....but I still stand by the comments I have posted.

Neil if you put the proposed safeguards in place, there would still be accidents of this nature occasionally.

It was an accident that could not have been foreseen, or prevented....the people involved were all unfortunate victims.......I think more concentration needs to go on other issues of road safety......using mobiles whilst driving, driving under the influence, driving recklessly......all the aforementioned kill both drivers and pedestrians, but because this driver was elderly then you have the knee jerk reaction of 'let's get older drivers off the road'......OK, maybe that isn't what you are saying, but that is, in effect, what would happen when the older drivers started to get their re-test notifications through the post.
This would isolate and marginalise older drivers on the pretext that they are unsafe...... a sweeping generalisation.

Well said Margaret - have a look at the Insurance rates for older drivers at Saga - much lower rates than a 20/30/40 year old yuppie, so who has the most accidents?