Old people going really fast..
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andysgriff said:
Took the 'quicker car' to work this week (Derbyshire to Suffolk) as weather has been decent. I'm amazed at the number of times I felt i should pull over to let cars past on the A1 whilst I am doing 80+ units/hour. What amazed me more was a) the age of some of the speed freaks, (over 70??), b) the cars they were driving (small/city cars)..
Feel like a bit of a twit pulling over for granny smith in her 1.3 L but what do you do? Whats going on?
Rant over..
Why did you feel a twit? If they want to go faster, then let them. As somebody has said, if it was the other way round, you would be frustrated if somebody didn't pull over for you. Feel like a bit of a twit pulling over for granny smith in her 1.3 L but what do you do? Whats going on?
Rant over..
Edited by andysgriff on Thursday 24th July 00:44
Edited by andysgriff on Thursday 24th July 00:46
Makes me smile a bit when old people drive fast. Like my Granny once drove my Grandad's old 325 td down the A338 into Bournemouth at 110mph!
I normally find on the motorways these days it's not older folks overtaking, but usually a girl in her late teens / early 20's, eyes transfixed into a random spot in the middle distance and a sort of glazed expression, steaming along at about 85-90MPH in the smallest engined Fiesta or Toyota money can buy! 
My g/f got really badly tailgated coming back from Keswick on a B road by an old lady in an Aygo. We pulled over to let her past and she disappeared off into the distance. Both looked at each other and said 'must be a local'. To have known how quick she could take the corners, must have been doing it for a while, nothing looked dangerous on the outside, might have been different inside though!
Chicane-UK said:
I normally find on the motorways these days it's not older folks overtaking, but usually a girl in her late teens / early 20's, eyes transfixed into a random spot in the middle distance and a sort of glazed expression, steaming along at about 85-90MPH in the smallest engined Fiesta or Toyota money can buy!
There do seem to be a lot of those. You rarely see blokes of the same age doing the same unless they have mates onboard and are being manly. Do you think it's because the girls have all bills and hassles taken care of by the father? They are supposed to be smarter than boys so it can't be a lack of understanding of the risks but the lack of consequences?
I live in the pensioner capital of Britain (Christchurch) and I can assure everyone that high speed pensioners are an improbably unlikely circumstance. Most of them travel at roughly the speed of continental drift and require a traffic gap at least two minutes long to pull out at a roundabout. This can be quite irritating.
gaz1234 said:
As I have said before people over 50 should have to take their test agin or at least a test to see if they are capable or dangerous, eg is changing gear causing them to lose concentration, drive too fast, not indicating etc
50! That's ridiculous. 60 maybe, even then it wouldn't reduce many, 70 I would agree. It's that age onwards that things start deteriorating and would need checks.In an ideal world, there should be more tests for younger people (say every 5 years in their first 20 years of driving) before they get too many bad habits that are nigh on impossible to shift as they hit middle age.
Chicane-UK said:
I normally find on the motorways these days it's not older folks overtaking, but usually a girl in her late teens / early 20's, eyes transfixed into a random spot in the middle distance and a sort of glazed expression, steaming along at about 85-90MPH in the smallest engined Fiesta or Toyota money can buy!
And on her phone.
ks.gaz1234 said:
As I have said before people over 50 should have to take their test agin or at least a test to see if they are capable or dangerous, eg is changing gear causing them to lose concentration, drive too fast, not indicating etc
And I don't think young people should be allowed to drive until they are at least 30.Gassing Station | General Gassing | Top of Page | What's New | My Stuff