Should i stop her from driving

Drag70 | 10:58 Mon 31st May 2010 | Law

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A family member of mine has been driving without a full license for many years she has insurance and free car tax and a blue badge. She's had 2 heart attacks, a major heart oparation. And this year she had a pacemaker/defid fitted. Though all of this she she has not notified DVLA or her insurance company. She knows she is doing wrong but uses her health problems as an excuse not to do somthing about it. What should i do?

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Old_Geezer

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Appreciate you don't want to cause a rift in the family, but others in the family must know this is happening also. Surely the first thing to do would be to get those other family members to talk to her and convince her it is time to accept the situation, and put it right. They can point out the consequences to her when found out if that help persuade.

10:50 Fri 04th Jun 2010

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daftgrandad

Report her to the relevant authorities ASAP.
She is a danger to herself and even more so,other drivers.

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alavahalf

She has'nt got insurance as she has obviously made a false declaration when applying for the insurance....one of the first questions they ask, is how long have you held a full driving licence for..?

Have you ever had to make a claim off an uninsured driver. .... I'd phone crimestoppers ...you would be doing us all a favour.!

If you dont want to be identified...

http://www.crimestopp...7ye_KECFVKX2AodFA_REw

Drag70

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Sorry i should of said she only has a provisional and i know her insurance is invalid.

MarkRae

> Sorry [i] I should [of] have said she only has a provisional and [i] I know her insurance is invalid.

Irrelevant - report her immediately and get her off the roads. People like this are an accident waiting to happen, and one of the main reasons why insurance premiums are so high for the rest of us...

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dothawkes31

hang on how old is she? I'm probably wrong now, but my Auntie had never taken nor passed a driving test but was legally ok to drive because she drove before driving licneses were introduced, she was 90 when she died in 2001,

dothawkes31

she learnt to drive in the WRAFs during WW2, her job in the war was a driver to an officer, she met her first husband then, a Swedish airman, sorry, digressing again lol

dothawkes31

sorry before driving TESTS were introduced.

Drag70

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Not that old

alavahalf

All of a sudden it's criminal records all round...will you sleep well tonight.

What's it going to be.. a doctors appointment or crimestoppers..?

dothawkes31

Ok then she's an idiot, get her of the road.

MarkRae

> she learnt to drive in the WRAFs during WW2

Then she needed to have passed a driving test. Driving tests were made compulsory in the Road Traffic Act of 1934 which stated that everyone who had started to drive on or after 1 April 1934 must pass a test...

dothawkes31

No I definately remember her telling me she never needed to pass a test. I'll research it and find out what she meant, it has something to do with her WRAF driving.

Drag70

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Would llike to now what people think and would do, not that i,m breaking the law its not easy.

MarkRae

> No I [definately] definitely remember her telling me she never needed to pass a test.

No doubt - but she was incorrect:
http://en.wikipedia.o...Road_Traffic_Act_1934

Seeing the second clause - being in the military was not an exemption...

dothawkes31

found it:
8 Feb 1947

A period of a year granted for wartime provisional licences to be converted into full licence without passing the test.

MarkRae

My mistake - apologies.

dothawkes31

http://www.bigredl.co...%20Test%20History.htm

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