I saw this story on the BBC website. An 85-year old driver got on the wrong side of the A3 dual carriageway and collided with two other cars.
On a related note, I was with a pupil on a lesson today and had to use the dual controls as an elderly (he must have been 70+) driver came towards us off a bend on a narrow country lane on the wrong side of the road. In this case, he was making no attempt to move back. The cars behind him couldn’t believe what they saw, judging from their expressions.
It really is time our society stopped playing games and started to acknowledge the fact that as people get older, they tend towards being greater and greater risks to themselves and everyone else. They need to be assessed regularly – and harshly.
There has to come a time in everyone’s life when the decision has to be made about whether they should be allowed on the road anymore before someone innocent gets killed.