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Only two problems I can see with mandatory testing.

 

Doctors failing people who should pass, being failed by the doctor who doesn't want to get sued, if there is an accident later.

 

Governments using the test as yet another form of taxation.

As paul says some classes of driving license have to have health checks, my idea might not sound great but look at the many cases of elderly drivers mentioned in this thread and as the population of the UK is living longer it is only going to worsen. Something needs to change and thats why i questioned the rules in other countries,there might just be a good template that we could adopt

Using rmweb as a snapshot of the UK there are lots of us with situations involving elderly relatives and driving, some of us are lucky that license surrendered or vehicle sold,signed over but some have flat refusal to listen ,believe that their driving standards have become dangerous to themselves and others. Do we need a change in the law that once we reach a certain age mandatory health checks and some sort of retest carried out. what is the situation in the US, AUS or elsewhere?

Dad still holds a driving license BUT cannot phyically get into the car now as he cannot weight bear, unfortunatly also a diagnosis of dementia and he got upset recently when we sorted car insurance out for mam and had to tell him he wasnt on the policy...not a good day

 

This sadly sounds all too typical, both of individual and corporate behaviours. At least you can take comfort from having done the right thing and it sounds like some good will come out of the incident if the old chap finally accepts that he shouldn’t be driving. I went through the same thing with my grandfather who refused to accept the advice of everybody that it was time for him to stop driving for the sake of both his own safety and that of others. I upset him particularly because I was quite blunt in telling him that if he killed himself it would be sad but not tragic given that he was of an age where death wasn’t far away whatever he might do (he was also in his 80’s) but that wasn’t true for other road users and pedestrians he was likely to kill. I know that sounds blunt but he was an absolute menace and personally I was far more worried about the other people he was likely to end up killing.

 

Very similar to what we went through with my farther, number of strokes and TIA,s but insisted he was still ok to drive. Luckily dr had a chat with him one day and he stopped driving

Apologies if this has been covered before, a few schools in town have 20 when lights flash limits around them BUT i have seen these lights on at night time, weekends and even school holidays so which limit do you abide by as the 20 is designed for specific times of the day monday to friday?

Didnt know that but when built they had the derated deltic engine which can trace its linage back to ww2 junkers aero engines, as with lots of engines they are designed for one application and then adapted, with differing results!

And of course the deltic engine was originally designed for marine applications and is still in use in a derated form in the Hunt class

Very nice improvement Arthur

Thanks for the clarification Arthur, been a long day and hadnt thought of it that way round !

remeber reading somewhere that the fitters in Barrow had, for some reason, more success at keeping them in service. dont remember where i read this but a possible explanation as to why they all ended up here. vickers armstrongs claim to fame with BR was as the license holder for sulzer diesel engines built on "The golden mile"

actually vickers armstrong Barrow had no conection with metropolitan vickers by the 1950s as they had sold off the buisness ,plenty of sources on internet to confirm this

hiya mate, just a thought... 3d printed replacement parts?

Hiya mate, thought Ian bought an ETHEL a couple of years ago?

Cheers kev, still unsure which to go for!!

Hiya mate, been meaning to ask you how much quicker are the traintronics motors in throwing than the tortoise? Nick

Any news on 401 or is that still officially MIA? lol!