Cycling with Lights

[Rich]

The best way to make our roads safer for all is to ban motorists over 65. Once your eyesight goes, you're not safe to be in charge of a car. At 70+ driving licences are being renewed without even a medical, just a questionnaire. !

I would go further than that. I would ban all drivers except males between 18 and 25. The roads would be hell for a short while but afterwards they would be havens of peace and quiet.

[Graham Davis]

The best way to make our roads safer for all is to ban motorists over 65. Once your eyesight goes, you're not safe to be in charge of a car. At 70+ driving licences are being renewed without even a medical, just a questionnaire. !

 

So how will all the plus 65's who will have to work when the retirement age is increased to 67 get to work? And how will us rural dwellers get about when there is no public transport?

 

Idiot!!

[Homer 123]

Lol by boat? The thing is most passed their test over 40 years ago and haven't kept up with driving conditions and busy roads. At the very least they should be retested and be required to pass every year.

[Max Sinclair]

In 1950 I was fined 10 shillings for cycling through Bournville with a flickering rear light. The wire from my saddlebag battery had frayed. Appearing before the Birmingham Magistrate the policeman said " When stopped the defendant said it would be useful to give policemen a wheel barrow full of tarmac to fill in Birminghams potholes". When I went to pay the Court Clerk said I was lucky it

should have been £5 but the Magistrates were Solihull residents and were highly amused at my description of Birmingham roads. At about the same time I was cycling through Solihull and an elderley resident shouted at me Go slowly throuh the village.

How times have changed. Max Sinclair

[Jerra]

Once your eyesight goes, you're not safe to be in charge of a car.

That would prevent a number of people ever having a license and I was under the impression that glasses corrected vision. Perhaps you know something the opticians don't?

[Grace and Favour]

Lol by boat? The thing is most passed their test over 40 years ago and haven't kept up with driving conditions and busy roads. At the very least they should be retested and be required to pass every year.

 

The best way to make our roads safer for all is to ban motorists over 65. Once your eyesight goes, you're not safe to be in charge of a car. At 70+ driving licences are being renewed without even a medical, just a questionnaire. !

I suggest you research the accident rates by age group and then reconsider your fatuous suggestion