older people are a "greater liability"

My partner and I (late 60's) have just been on a day's FREE Driver Refresher course for older people in Wales organised (with the help of EU funding - make the most of this!) and delivered by the person who used to be in charge of all the police driver training in our area.

It was a mixture of presentations/questions and answer sessions, films and practical out on the road supervised driving. It was all voluntary, and whether you did well or there was 'room for improvement' no-one's licence was at risk!

It was encouraging, supportive, helpful empowering,and thoroughly worthwhile. We would recommend it to anyone. Not sure whether it is available all over the UK but worth Googling to find out. Anyone else been on this?

( We found out about it via an'Ageing Well' day at our local leisure centre).

N.B.Free sandwiches, too!

Cass
Great idea though not sure you deserved "free" sarnies at tax payers expense! I can think of better uses for the moneY!

The whole idea is preventive, Mair - to limit road accidents, any one of which, if they involve injuries, are a huge expense to our public services!

If the figures next year demonstrate that this has been successful, I don't think myself that a plate of cheese and salad sandwiches is either here or there! Now the spending of ' slippage' money at the end of a local authority's financial year is another matter altogether.....

I've noticed on other threads Mair that logic isn't your strong point..

Your own weakness of logic is exposed even in your previous post Anya, so I am not too surprised at your biased assessment of mine, or your rude and pointless attack.

I am 65yrs old and my mother is just turned 93. She is a very very determined and independant old lady and can be very difficult. She also has macular degeneration but seems to have held on to her licence. She drives locally all the time and has never had an accident other than bumps on her car, but
I last drove with her as a passenger about 3 yrs ago and I was PETRIFIED! She drove her tiny Kia at 80mph down the motorway and when she took the East sliproad out on to the A30, not the West, she backed up the slip road and did a 3 point turn to get off. I got out of the car and was furious and thoroughly frightened. She told me I was a hysteric!
I am going down to visit her next week and unfortunately looks as if my DH will have to take the car for a couple of days and leave me without it. My mother wants us to have a day out to a small rural town in Devon about an hour from where she lives, which is also in a country area but involves some motorway driving.

I suggested that I drove her car when I came down as it was quite a long way , but she wouldnt have it at all and said it was her car and she would drive.
I really dont want to drive with her again as a passenger and am thinking of making an excuse to visit her at a later date when I have my car. And even then, she is likely to say that we take her car and she will drive.
Am I being unreasonable or a coward !?

If I were you I'd just say if you want a day out I am driving. If she won't let you then no day out! I presume youre insured so can drivee her car.

It sounds as though she should quit motorway driving, though may be OK just to go to local shops and back in the daytime.