I would not be in favour of a mandatory cut off age at which people have to stop driving. It is often the case that a person at the age of seventy-five can be in a better physical and medical condition than someone ten years younger.
However, as we all become older we often become subject to medical conditions which in their symptoms or in the drugs or other treatments being received to reduce those symptoms affect our driving.
In that, eyesight is obviously predominant but conditions that affect the neck and limbs can also be important when driving a vehicle. Drugs used in treatments of numerous disorders can cause side effects that can be very detrimental to driving abilities.
A solution that has been put forward by the insurance industry in recent months would mean a numeric risk assessment being brought into being for all who drive vehicles.
Therefore, various disabilities would acquire a score on a drivers licence which may be increased or decreased by a physician depending on the severity of the disability in conjunction with the treatments and drugs being used to control the medical problem.
The above could be invaluable where a person has multiple problems and where various symptoms and drugs are being used to control the symptoms. Therefore where, by example, the numeric five by five risk assessment could incur a maximum total of twenty-five the ultimate number for a person to retain their driving licence when the effects of all treatments are assessed would be between eight and nine.
The above would give any driver a clear numeric total over which they would be well aware they would not be allowed to drive. The foregoing could be brought into being with an annual compulsory medical examination for all over the age of forty-five.
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