Warning: driving licence revoked for no reason!

Rolandtheroadie

Bo_Nidle wrote: »

It's a picture of a man. Why mention he is black ?

For those that are colour blind?

paddedjohn

KierNet wrote: »

First bold...leave earlier if you don't want to be late, not hard to work out really!

Second bold...£65 a week? Maybe if your doing loads of miles, I'm currently doing around 1,000 a month, which is average I believe and it costs me maybe £70 a month for fuel.

what car are you driving that averages about 85mpg?

spiro

Given his age is it possible that this was nothing to do with the accident but that he is approaching 70 and needs to renew his licence which may require a medical?

sunshinetours

Strider590 wrote: »

The typical arrogant "bury my head in the sand" and "lets do an unintelligent one line put down to stop this arguement before anyone goes into detail and really thinks logically about it", response.

What it fails to take into consideration is that there are hundreds of factors we could take into consideration when planning a journey and if we considered all of them we'd be taking sleeping bags to work and staying over night under our desks.

I used to drive 9 miles to work, this could either take less than 10 minutes (6 minutes if you bend time and space), or nearly an hour depending mainly on the presence of excessively slow drivers....

Now, when you start work at 5:30am and have a 12 hour shift ahead of you, the last thing you want to be doing is getting up at 3am just because some dozy c**t wants to sit at 25mph going "look at aaaaaaaaaaaall these impatient drivers behind me Doris, I think im going to exercise the only power I have left in the entire world and p1ss them off as much as I can JUST to get a reaction".

"did you see that one?!?!?! he came tearing past!!! engine flaring!!!!! in his little sports car with the L plates on, bloody boy racers! and what about this idiot in the JCB? tut tut tut, those go faster yellow flashing lights didn't get him very far did they? ha"

So you assumed loads in your first post (maybe correctly maybe not) - get picked up on it (again) and then post back completely missing the point of the original post and still go on - wow just wow

No advice for the OP but as others have suggested if your husband is approaching 70 then this may be routine why it has happened and unfortunately by not meeting the criteria set out the licence has been suspended on a technicality. There must be an appeals process to follow first and then worry about complaining afterwards and apply for compensation for the extra costs involved in your travelling over and above your regular car running costs

Hammyman

SailorSam wrote: »

I'm surprised people are taking the MrsB s problem so flippantly, her Oh has done nothing but fail to get a form in on time, we don't know whether her husband has done any wrong or not. If as been suggested he's left a trail of destruction behind him it's for the police to take action before he should lose his licence, whatever his age that's irrelevant, if the Gp has passed him as fit it seems someone at the Dvlc is being a bit to keen.

He has been required to get a medical to prove he is still fit to drive. He didn't do it by the time required so his licence has been revoked.

I am a former HGV driver who has to have periodical medicals to retain my licence. My next one is due on my 45th birthday. If I don't get it done by then it gets revoked.

When it comes to being medically fit to drive, it is not for the Police to take action other than reporting they feel he is unfit to DVLA who will then request a medical as they have done.

A letter from the GP is not sufficient, DVLA have forms for driver medicals and can also request medical files. This is to stop GPs, some who have quite close relations with their patients, from being biased.

Strider590

Ok, my posts came across a little strongly and somewhat unfairly directed.... But they only reflect my strength of my belief that the system currently allows many drivers to keep their license when in fact they are a menace on the roads.

Every few months we see stories like this one and yet we are constantly told that speeding is the only thing that causes accidents.
At least the Americans admit that elderly drivers are a major problem, we fail to do so because it's not politically correct!!

When I get to a point where im unable to drive at an acceptable speed and long processions of drivers are passing me whilst leaning on the horn, I will put my hands up and say "please take my drivers licence away".

Flyboy152

Strider590 wrote: »

Ok, my posts came across a little strongly and somewhat unfairly directed.... But they only reflect my strength of my belief that the system currently allows many drivers to keep their license when in fact they are a menace on the roads.

Every few months we see stories like this one and yet we are constantly told that speeding is the only thing that causes accidents.
At least the Americans admit that elderly drivers are a major problem, we fail to do so because it's not politically correct!!

When I get to a point where im unable to drive at an acceptable speed and long processions of drivers are passing me whilst leaning on the horn, I will put my hands up and say "please take my drivers licence away".

An 87-year-old man from Lochaber was arrested. Police say they released the man without charge but have reported him to the DVLA.

The stupid old fart should have been banned. Goodness knows how many people he could have killed.

Trebor16

Strider590 wrote: »

Ok, my posts came across a little strongly and somewhat unfairly directed.... But they only reflect my strength of my belief that the system currently allows many drivers to keep their license when in fact they are a menace on the roads.

There are plenty of people out there who are a menace on the road who cannot use age as an excuse, so why concentrate just on the elderly?

Strider590

Trebor16 wrote: »

There are plenty of people out there who are a menace on the road who cannot use age as an excuse, so why concentrate just on the elderly?

We target speeding, we target mobile phone users, we target unroadworthy vehicles, but we do not target drivers who no longer have the capacity to drive a car.

The previous transport minister made a statement:

"people once they reach the age of 75 are as dangerous, on average, as newly qualified 17 year-old drivers"

But the worrying aspect of that is that the elderly do FAR less miles. So mile for mile, I wonder what the stats say?

The reality is that ee know the truth, but we all deny it because it's not politically correct.

Trebor16

Strider590 wrote: »

We target speeding, we target mobile phone users, we target unroadworthy vehicles, but we do not target drivers who no longer have the capacity to drive a car.

And that is something that is not always age related. There are plenty of drivers out there who do not have the capacity to drive safely. What about the drivers who have passed their test but not driven a car for years?As an example a few years back I had to train three actors to ride motorcycles for their roles in a TV drama. One of them had passed his motorcycle test 6 years previously but had not riden since taking his test. The other two were totally new to motorcycles. The two novices were better than the guy who had taken and passed his test, yet legally he could have got on to a motorcycle and ridden off, but he would have been a danger to himself and others.