“Elderly driver who knocked down girl, 13, is advised to avoid busy roads”

Yorkshire wallet wrote:

beezus fufoon wrote:

to be honest I was more interested in the headline “Grim discovery on Westcountry beach ‘penis and testicles'”

 

Crossed that one off the holiday list then.

 

To be fair, that story is mostly b ll cks!

If it was a 17 year old lad in his Corsa and he claimed it would stop him going to raves and his mates to play Grand Turismo he’d be bunked up with our mate Charlie A…

This would be less common if

This would be less common if people had to do a medical and a driving test every five years. Would get more incompetant drivers off the road.

Would also have a side benefit of all the older epopel who would lose their licence would get very interested in getting better public transport.

^^Too true. I think the bike

^^Too true. I think the bike is a non-factor here, it’s the ages that count, and as we know, teenagers don’t. 

Totally shocked, you bump

Totally shocked, you bump into someone on a bike and you get a considerable jail sentence (note my understanding is that the law is not supposed to look at the injury consequence).

Surely this woman should be provided with the alternative arrangements she can afford to maintian he lifestyle. The phone number of the local taxi firm and a bike with a few lessons so she can remain active.

As evidenced in the court she ‘hit and run’ so it should have been dangerous driving.

We are yet again being failed by our society to ensure the safety of  all due to the consequence on the convenience for these people. 

to be honest I was more

to be honest I was more interested in the headline “Grim discovery on Westcountry beach ‘penis and testicles'”

“I am a very independent

“I am a very independent person and rely on my car. I play tennis twice a week, bowls in Topsham, I sing in a choir and do tai chi.”

. . .

Harrison, who admitted driving without due care and attention, told magistrates that if they disqualified her she would not be able to go to her activity groups.

She was fined and told to pay costs of £405.

Magistrates told her to pay more attention and consider not driving at busy times of the day.”

Aww bless.  Play tennis, sing in a choir, do tai chi.  Surely the occasional child getting run down is a small price to pay for allowing such fine upstanding members of the community to engage in their fulfilling activities?  Maybe, like the nice Magistrate suggested, she’ll consider only running down children at quiet times of the day now.

Yeah.. but you are forgetting

Yeah.. but you are forgetting that without her licence she wouldn’t be able to play bowls innit? 

Seems totally fair in my eyes. Bloody cyclist shouldn’t have been on the crossing… or… the green man is only an advisory, the bloody cyclist should have still looked before crossing… or… bloody cyclists, she deserved it, because I once saw one jumping a red light, once maybe – ok I read about it.