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  Are older drivers a menace?  
          Well every so often a politician, government body or the EU comes up with a suggestion to restrict or test elderly drivers. Why restrict testing to private motorists at 65 or 70? Why not at 45? or 30? As the highest number of fatalities are in the 20 - 29 age group.      
          Dispelling the myths:  
         

We have been doing this for well over ten years.

December 1997
"There is no age related increase in the total number of accidents for the over 60's" Department of Transport

November 2000
"Older drivers are less likely to be involved in accidents that cause injuries. Age based screening programmes for elderly drivers cannot be justified on experience to date. They may well frighten some people, particularly elderly women, into stopping driving unnecessarily early"
Dr. Kit Mitchell, former Analyst at the Transport Research Laboratory
Read Dr. Mitchell's full report that he sent us HERE

March 2006
"old age should not be a bar to driving"
Dr. Stephen Ladyman MP. Minister of State, Department of Transport

Summer 2008
"Older drivers are among the safest on the road and represent a much smaller risk than drivers less than 25 years. Therefore it is hard to justify the imposition of compulsory medical or driving tests at the age of 70 on road safety grounds," says Neil Greig,Trust Director, Institute of Advanced Motorists.

According to the IAM Trust, research and accident records of older drivers suggest that compulsory driving tests would be a disproportunate response to the scale of the problem, as the reduction in the number of accidents woiuld be minimal. Research also shows most older drivers know when to stop driving - and they do stop. Institute of Advanced Motorists