Taking the keys away

shillelagh · 02-11-2010, 22:32

its about when you are too old to drive

BBC - BBC One Programmes - Taking the Keys Away

Getting old presents many challenges. Hardest of all is the threat of losing your independence. And for most people in Britain, that means one thing - their car.
But what happens when you worry you are too old to drive? How do you know it's time to stop? And how does a family deal with the problem if granny or granddad refuse to hang up their keys?
This documentary explores this tricky dilemma through the stories of three elderly drivers and their families. Kate and Derek are a couple in their eighties whose driving is causing real concern for their grown-up children. Eanswythe is a lifelong driver, also in her eighties, who is struggling to get her licence back after it was taken away on health grounds. And Joan is a widow in her seventies who needs her car to be independent, but her children are worried that she is becoming a danger to herself and others.
Amusing, touching and at times hair-raising, this film explores one of the most difficult choices a family will ever have to make. When are you too old to drive?

cashman · 02-11-2010, 23:09

its a matter of being HONEST wi yerself, just watched some of it n fer me some of those were well past driving safely, silly owd sods, i have said fer many years now, when i lose it i will cease, i feel certain i will,have packed in other stuff, cos i know i aint up to it.

garinda · 02-11-2010, 23:18

I'm not old!

I never drive if I'm not fit, and only have a radius of three miles anyway, in a Noddy car.

Please let them re-new my licence again, without having to go to Wrightington hospital and press all those flashing buttons, before driving around Pie Town in the rain.

I'm more likely to injure someone bumbling through M & S.

cashman · 02-11-2010, 23:52

Quote:

Originally Posted by garinda

I'm not old!

I never drive if I'm not fit, and only have a radius of three miles anyway, in a Noddy car.

Please let them re-new my licence again, without having to go to Wrightington hospital and press all those flashing buttons, before driving around Pie Town in the rain.

I'm more likely to injure someone bumbling through M & S.

I'm aware ya dont, like i said its called being honest wi yerself.

a thing many are incapable of.

shillelagh · 02-11-2010, 23:58

i watched that ... and it was scary ... especially the one with the unpronounceable name who wanted her licence back ... she spent her own money to prove that she could drive after having lost her licence due to medical reasons .. and failing a driving test ... and the tests she had proved that she couldnt drive .. and shes still trying to get her licence back!!! She said i didnt fall asleep .. the doc said she fell asleep for 12 1/2 mins ...