I was watching a tv documentry about an ambulance crew in Liverpool, UK and they were going on a red call to very ill child who had stoped breathing. Well on the way they had to go down a narrow street with parked cars either side so the road was a narrow one lane road. While they went down there on blues and sirrons a blue metro just stoped in the middle of the narrow street and just sat there for ages. Inside the car were two OAP's wife and couple who thought the ambulance was a polie car pulling them over so they just stoped and waited. after a few mins the paramedics got out and told them to move!!! Do you think old people should have to re-take thier driving test ??? I DO!!!
2007-09-13 20:02:41 · 17 answers · asked by Anonymous in Cars & Transportation ➔ Safety
Do you think young people should have to retake their driving tests? I was at a corner in traffic once, the light turned green, and nobody moved because an ambulance was entering the intersection, lights blazing, sirens blaring. The guy in the truck next to me, looked about 20, was honking his horn, flashing his lights, and yelling out his window for people to start moving, the light was green! Do you see a difference in your story and mine? I don't, except the age, so I repeat my question. Do you think young people should have to retake their driving tests?
2007-09-13 20:10:42 · answer #1 · answered by Fred C 7 · 4⤊ 0⤋
Definitely. I'm on the road a lot and have seen some older drivers do some unbelievable things. Driving 20 to 30 mph under the limit, changing lanes without signaling or looking, run stop signs red lights etc. I was on the interstate last week and there was a traffic slowdown ahead of me. When I got up to the front there was an old lady driving about 40 mph in the very middle of the two lanes. She obviously had no business being on the road. There was an incident about a year ago not far from where I live where an 80 plus year old woman got confused at a stop sign and instead of hitting the brake pedal hit the accelerator instead. She crashed through a wall of a grade school and killed an 8 year old boy eating his lunch in the cafeteria. I think they should be tested yearly and also have to get clearance from a doctor stating that they are mentally capable of driving.
2007-09-14 02:49:15 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
Hi, i was having this discussion the other day, there has been quite alot of car accidents in the town where i live and people have been killed as a result and it has been because of elderly drivers. So of corse i think they should retake their test. We dont mean to be affensive to old people but they are a hazord to pedestrians and other drivers. For one thing they dont have same reactions as they did when they were young and i think they should re take there driving tests every 2 years from the age of 55, i know it is quite a lot of money but surley they could do it for free as in the end it could save lives. There was a coach crash where i live taking school children on a trip to south port and the driver was in his 60's and they said that it wasnt the drivers age that cause the accident, because he passed a medical people that age have every year. But quite a few of the children said the coach was swearving side to side, even though the driver had had a medical that year, how does he know or the doctors know that he never blacked out or something or even fell asleep, Its not just about sight and reactions its just the fact that the elderly are unstable and maybe should not even allowed to drive. As all the children could of actually been killed as they coach did over turn. No affence to the elderly as we all get elderly sometime,
2016-05-19 01:50:47 · answer #3 · answered by mariko 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
From what I've seen in over a million miles of driving in the U.S.,Canada and Mexico is that age isn't so much the issue. But the people administering these tests need to be tested themselves. Obviously they hand out drivers licenses to anyone who can past the "spoon test". The Gov't dosn't want these bad drivers off the road because they couldn't get out to spend money and keep the economy going or keep the accident rates high so the Gov't can save us. How else can they justify driveing up the taxs. Do you think they will ever "downsize" the Gov't????????????? PLEASE.
2007-09-14 02:11:00 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
yes most definately. My mother is 76 years old and she scares the holy day lights out of me, She drives too slow for one, and then she drives in the middle of the road. I know for a fact she can not see the distance on the other side of her car cause she has hit my truck a few times in her own driveway, yes, they need to regulate these people. I drive for her every chance I get if we are to go somewhere together.
2007-09-13 20:15:41 · answer #5 · answered by ? 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Absolutely, the fact of the matter is, with age, you get less aware. My grandfather should NOT be driving... At age 55, I think it should be required every 5yrs.
The fact is, people can "fake it" during their test. Which, I'm sure most 16yr olds do. There's nothing we can do. But at least we know they CAN drive. Follow up exams would rate whether the person can even pretend to drive correctly. If an elderly person can get behind the wheel with an instructor, and pass without a problem, but will still go out and drive horribly the next day, then there is nothing that can be done about that either.
2007-09-13 20:08:36 · answer #6 · answered by Chris T 2 · 1⤊ 3⤋
WE ALL SHOULD BE REQUIRED TO RETAKE OUR DRIVING TEST BUT BEFORE YOU START LABLING OLDER PEOPLE READ THIS.......................
Sign of the times …The pressures of growing up in modern society …Call it what you will. The fact is that studies have shown:
One out of 10 children ages 12 and 13 uses alcohol at least once a month.
In a single year, 522 children under age 14 were arrested for driving while intoxicated, (113 of them were under 10 years old).
70 percent of all teenagers drink alcohol.
60 percent of all teen deaths in car accidents are alcohol-related.
2007-09-15 02:19:09 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
did it ever occur to u on just HOW they got old? it was from driving with a brain in their head instead of driving reckless like 4 out of 5 teens/20-somethings do. they got old from surviving their mistakes...some of u young one's wont even survive the first mistake.
hmmm u young pups wouldnt get into so many wrecks if u were to put the dam phone down.
2007-09-14 10:46:04 · answer #8 · answered by forktail_devil 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I would hate to have to re-take a driving test when I get older, but the fact remains that most people won't hang it up when they need to. I think that the law should step in at a certain point, but then the question becomes how old is old enough?
2007-09-14 08:47:14 · answer #9 · answered by caution_m3 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋
ya they should make the roads wider in the uk, I,m 68 and i think i drive better and safer than some young kid who thinks he can take a curve at 60 mph, on the wrong side of the road,
2007-09-14 04:55:54 · answer #10 · answered by William B 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋