Driving When You Are Over 75

dorothys | 18:04 Sun 10th Mar 2013 | Road rules

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What age do you need your doctor to confirm that you are still able to drive?

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arwyn

At 70 you will be asked if you have any problems ..

boxtops

You'll need a medical each year once you reach 75 http://www.rta.nsw.gov.au/licensing/renewingalicence/olderdrivers/over75.html

Buenchico

Boxtops:
Are you sure that the questioner is in New South Wales (which is what your link applies to). Her previous posts suggest that Scotland is more likely!

Maydup

^^^^ That's a link from New South Wales in Australia. Does not apply here.

Buenchico

Every link I can find (including the Government's website and the Age UK website) suggests that you only ever need to 'self-declare' medical fitness, at any age. A doctor's confirmation is not required.

Anngel

Unfortunately, to ask someone of 75 if they are fit to drive begs the question....are they fit to answer the question? I have had several near misses from older gentlemen who seem to think traffic lanes are there as suggestions only, along with speed limits ( tootling along at 15 miles an hour on a clear road) and lack of signalling in any way shape or form. I believe that over 75 should at least have to re-take the reaction time test. Still it is only a matter of time before we can get into the car and tell it where to drive to with no human interacting at all....

albaqwerty

If Dorothy isn't in NSW, then it's just Boxy. She likes moving people around :-)

Mass_Hysteria

My Mother is 77 now and has never needed a cert from Doctor or a medical.

I sometimes wish she would self declare though! We have suggested it but falls on deaf ears.

craft1948

Is she getting mixed up with Dorothy from Oz?

Tilly2

My elderly friend, who is 78, is keeping the local 'dent eraser and scratch repair man' well and truly occupied. I won't get in his car. He terrifies me.

Mamyalynne

'Age is no bar to the holding of a licence. DVLA requires confirmation at age of 70 that no medical disability is present, thereafter a 3-year licence is issued subject to satisfactory completion of medical questions on the application form. Notwithstanding, as ageing progresses, a driver or his relative(s) may be aware that the combination of progressive loss of memory, impairment in concentration and reaction time with possible loss of confidence, suggest consideration be given to cease driving. Physical frailty is not per se a bar to the holding of a licence.'

C&P from

http://www.patient.co.uk/doctor/fitness-to-drive

craft1948

I remember in York we used to have a rather elderly lady called Dr Ball-Dodd, who I think was significantly over normal retirement age. Wherever she was visiting she just used to abandon the car and go, the local police just used to get in the empty car and park it for her.

Maydup