Another car-bike crash

[Genie]

I've only been riding around here for the last year or so but there are literally hundreds of drivers each day they don't bloody look properly. You are most likely one of them, at some stage in all our driving we fuck it up, stop judging.

As a rider - at the end of the ride you are responible for your own safety, no-one else. Yeah you might not be able to avoid every situation but you need to learn how to read the situation "before" it happens. Not always possible but it's the best that you can do.

I've had moments where a driver has seen me - is looking straight at me - yet will still drive into my path, fortunately I've anticpated their negligence and have ridden accordingly. I've a really loud voice that screams abuse at them and I've been known to shake my first aggressively in their direction....heaven forbide I ever have to actually hit someone for I will surely make them feel some pain.

[NighthawkNZ:Me]

Motion included blindness
http://www.michaelbach.de/ot/mot_mib/index.html

Add in what I said in my last post about lights on and group of bikes it is easy to see how it happens....

Every one, and I mean every one just need to slow down and take a deep breath and take the second or third look, stop being so impatient.

[ajturbo]

90 is a bit old to be driving

well i'm fucked than...

[Owl]

Over the years, we (work) have successfully convinced one elderly driver to surrender his licence. He was our best customer too (crash repair).

His inability to work out why his car wouldn't move was the final straw. He was securely seat-belted in the passenger seat.

[HenryDorsetCase]

Over the years, we (work) have successfully convinced one elderly driver to surrender his licence. He was our best customer too (crash repair).

His inability to work out why his car wouldn't move was the final straw. He was securely seat-belted in the passenger seat.

thats fantastic! its funny because he didnt kill anyone. that time...

[MarkH]

You may feel differently when you're that old and the car or bike is your means of independence.

Unfortunately there are people that think that way, but are a menace on the road. I think it is a bad thing that they would lose their independence, but a worse thing if someone else would lose their life.

I think that anyone over 75 should not only have to have a driving test, without needing the recommendation from their doctor. I don't think that it is always easy for a doctor to know that the person is not so good at paying attention to road hazards any more.

[Brian d marge]

Every one, and I mean every one just need to slow down and take a deep breath and take the second or third look, stop being so impatient.

well said that man

( except for sex )

[NighthawkNZ:Me]

( except for sex )

can't argue there...

[cold comfort]

While i can understand the independence aspect there Nelson has been a retirement centre for donkeys years and is infested with hesitant elderly drivers. My late father passed his (geographically limited) licence but i would not drive with him! In the final months of driving the car connected frequently with stationary objects apparently of its own volition! He however was not without insight and admitted to being scared of the traffic but compelled (as a widower) to drive to get to Drs appointments

[puddytat]

Many old folk have difficulty in actually being able to turn thier head left or right enough to see sufficiently well that the road is clear (or there) due to the fusing of verterbrae in thier necks.

[Eyegasm]

All I can say is if I make it to 90 years old, I will not care if I drive or not.

Same if I make it to 80.

Being able to walk would be my main concern...