elderly drivers

JASR said:
I’ve started to explore the possibility with my mum.
Cost is very important, especially to a person brought up during the war/postwar period with the lack of goods/make do & mend mindset (which is good, and certainly better than the throwaway society).

I think if anything goes majorly expensive wrong with the car, then that’ll be the point to switch over to taxi’s. Because at that point you can throw in the cost of repair/new car, let alone road tax, fuel, mot, (parking), insurance and servicing - with all the hassle and time that involves.
Lay it out like that, and then work out the average cost of a ‘day out’ in a taxi, times how many days in a year they go out.

Compared to picking up the phone and getting a taxi, I’d say the cost over a year (let alone the hassle of all the other bits you have to deal with on a car), will be far less for someone who just does local drives.
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Good post mate.

Does your mum qualify for Ring And Ride service in Manchester and surrounding areas? My mum did but never used it when she could drive.
 
I couldnt drive for eight months when i broke my shoulder into a few bits , had non union of the fractures and my insurance wasnt valid till it was healed , longest eight months ever , still had to keep the car and insurance going but it sat there till it rotted underneath , it was twenty yrs old though tbf , taxi to hospitals and other essential places cost a fucking fortune
 
Psychedelic Casual said:
It wasn’t as bad as some wanker in a Subaru Impreza who crashed into the back of me once doing 60 on a 40 road. That **** could have killed me and I wanted to rip his head off after it, thankfully there were people there to calm me down. The twat still claimed it wasn’t his fault afterwards
It was an unaware mistake by the driver, she wasn’t speeding or anything. I felt sorry for her more than anything. I wonder if the answer is to have drivers over a certain age have to have a passenger with them or whether we should bring in compulsory driving tests every ten years or something?
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I think the DVSA should bring in a yearly 20 to 30 minute driving assessment when a driver reaches 75. Not a full test but a driving examiner sat there to decide if the driver is still competent to drive.
 
BlueMoonRisin’ said:
I think the DVSA should bring in a yearly 20 to 30 minute driving assessment when a driver reaches 75. Not a full test but a driving examiner sat there to decide if the driver is still competent to drive.
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my mother's (third) husband died last year, aged 82.
he drove almost every day to supermarkets and stuff, even though he was on death's door.
mum said he had become a terrible driver, always having prangs and nervous as anything, regularly endangering others.

when we were going through all his documents so as to inform the relevant people we couldn't find his driving licence.
i phoned the dvla to tell them he'd died, gave them all his details and they had absolutely no record of him whatsoever!
the fella on the phone said "yeah, there's a lot of people of his generation who never bothered taking a test."
 
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