OAP drivers

thacky

darkpool wrote: »

I've been stuck behind an OAP driver once too often. They have to be amongst the worst drivers on the road.

Huge yawn.

Money_User

Marmite27 wrote: »

to me outside lane would be on the far left, next to the hard sholder. The lane you are supposed to drive in if there is nothing in the other two lanes.

Inside lane would be the far right lane, 3rd one in, next to the central reservation.

Erm no!

http://lmgtfy.com/?q=outside+lane+motorway

Money_User

Azari wrote: »

I wish I could agree with you but from my experience older drivers - and by that I mean 70+ - do have some fairly serious problems with reaction times. Probably not all of them, but a lot.

The worst I ever saw was about 6 months ago. I recon the guy must have been 80 something. He was on a mini roundabout and panicked, didn't know what to do and just stopped. I don't know how long he was there for because everyone had to drive round him, people were trying to give way to get him off but he did nothing, just sat there not knowing what to do. He wasn't approaching I'll add, he actually started to drive round it then stopped, not a car problem, you could just see it was confusion.

Errata

Posters who can tell the age of a driver with a single glance, who is unknown to them and enveloped in a vehicle, should contratulate themselves. And tell us how they do it.

Mupette

I refuse to go over the speed limit, even if i have some idiot up my !!!!, i will not go over.. if they want to speed and get caught fine, but i won't budge..

Mids_Costcutter

paddedjohn wrote: »

tootling along at 25 in a 30 zone.....yep it must be pension day

A 30mph speed limit doesn't mean that's the minimum speed you must travel at. It's 30 for a reason!

pollypenny

Young drivers, usually male, in a small older car such as a fiesta or corsa, carrying a passenger in the front and 5 crammed into the back - classic accident material.

Similarly, older women, like, who haven't done much driving for years - could be vulnerable. However, I for one still avoid motorways. I admit to having lost confidence.

no-oneknowsme

pulliptears wrote: »

Can't believe you all fell for Dark troll again, wind em up and watch em go.

I have no experience of the OP at all so cant comment on whether or not they are a troll but I hardly think if he/she is a troll we have "fell for it"

We are having a calm discussion on drivers/speed limits and such like and as far as I can see everyones giving their own personal experiences.....its good to see a discussion going so well. So If the OP is a troll he/she has gained absolutely nothing from the "wind up thread" !!!

pinkteapot

A 16 year old girl was killed in my home-town last week when an 87 year old driver took ill at the wheel, mounted the kerb and pinned her and her friend against the wall of a shop.

It has emerged that a few days earlier the same driver drove into a petrol station the wrong way (one way system) and mounted and drove along the pavement. The police advised him that his license would be revoked but they have no power to take licenses away on the spot. He was waiting for the letter from the DVLA which takes up to a week, which would ask him to return his license, when he killed the girl.

He could have been any age and have the same thing happen though. What should change is the speed with which someone's license can be taken away from them. In this case at least, it could have saved a life.

Inactive

Marmite27 wrote: »

to me outside lane would be on the far left, next to the hard sholder. The lane you are supposed to drive in if there is nothing in the other two lanes.

Inside lane would be the far right lane, 3rd one in, next to the central reservation.

So being up the back of someone in the outside lane, with middle and inside lanes free is an annoyance IMO!

Can we all assume that you don't drive?

:eek::eek: