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Old farty :judge: making daftest comment! ;)
A judge has called for the raising of the driving age for young men to be increased to 24 years of age afet presiding over two cases this week.
In the first one, young lad had accident on dual carriageway whilst racing at :yikes: 95 mph.
In another - young man mounted pavement und left girl in wheelchair.
At other end of coin - ist 80 year old who did same thing und killed toddler.
Ist silly. :rolleyes: You are allowed to marry at 16, vote at 18, get sent to Iraq in army as young soldier und :driving: :tank: und jeep...
Perhaps - new drivers should be restricted as to power of car as back in my home country.. und I have heard of insurance company which gives discount for "not backseat passengers" (though cannot see how this will be enforced - ist possible that their insured are breaking terms of insurance here :rolleyes:
But .. the young men are young men - und we have all been there. Even girlies! I have skied in tipsy merriment down a mountain slope for a laugh - und I tried the bobsleigh which was "verboten" to young girlies like me at the time. :hehe: (It was worth my Papa's anger though :laugh: I had fullest appreciation of "feeling the speed!" :rofl:))
Und we already have youngsters trainsurfing und playing chicken und trying some really scary stuff on skateboards (though I think mountain boarding ist really :cool: but I am a little concerned over my second son's antics damit. Ist one of our terrible twins :eek:)
But ist Silly summer old farty :judge:
A judge has called for the raising of the driving age for young men to be increased to 24 years of age afet presiding over two cases this week.
In the first one, young lad had accident on dual carriageway whilst racing at :yikes: 95 mph.
In another - young man mounted pavement und left girl in wheelchair.
At other end of coin - ist 80 year old who did same thing und killed toddler.
Ist silly. :rolleyes: You are allowed to marry at 16, vote at 18, get sent to Iraq in army as young soldier und :driving: :tank: und jeep...
Perhaps - new drivers should be restricted as to power of car as back in my home country.. und I have heard of insurance company which gives discount for "not backseat passengers" (though cannot see how this will be enforced - ist possible that their insured are breaking terms of insurance here :rolleyes:
But .. the young men are young men - und we have all been there. Even girlies! I have skied in tipsy merriment down a mountain slope for a laugh - und I tried the bobsleigh which was "verboten" to young girlies like me at the time. :hehe: (It was worth my Papa's anger though :laugh: I had fullest appreciation of "feeling the speed!" :rofl:))
Und we already have youngsters trainsurfing und playing chicken und trying some really scary stuff on skateboards (though I think mountain boarding ist really :cool: but I am a little concerned over my second son's antics damit. Ist one of our terrible twins :eek:)
But ist Silly summer old farty :judge:
Also, I dare say that quite a fair number of accidents in the 18 - 24 bracket are down to "driver inexperience", misjudging situations which a more experienced (not necessarily older*) would have managed to avoid, rather than simply youthful exhuberance in planting the right foot into the carpet.
So, all this would achieve is to move the "area of least experience" into the 24 - 32 age bracket, and suddenly this age group will be the highest accident rate.
So they then move the minimum driving age to 32....... And so on until only those aged 115+ are allowed to drive.
* i.e. an 23 year old with 5 years driving, as opposed to a 24 year old who has just passed their test.
So, all this would achieve is to move the "area of least experience" into the 24 - 32 age bracket, and suddenly this age group will be the highest accident rate.
So they then move the minimum driving age to 32....... And so on until only those aged 115+ are allowed to drive.
* i.e. an 23 year old with 5 years driving, as opposed to a 24 year old who has just passed their test.
are like the Cuckoo's of spring...............and with about the same amount of commonsense, it's a British thing! 
Alice Cupra said:
Also, I dare say that quite a fair number of accidents in the 18 - 24 bracket are down to "driver inexperience", misjudging situations which a more experienced (not necessarily older*) would have managed to avoid, rather than simply youthful exhuberance in planting the right foot into the carpet.
So, all this would achieve is to move the "area of least experience" into the 24 - 32 age bracket, and suddenly this age group will be the highest accident rate.
So they then move the minimum driving age to 32....... And so on until only those aged 115+ are allowed to drive.
* i.e. an 23 year old with 5 years driving, as opposed to a 24 year old who has just passed their test.
Agreed.
A couple of my mates have recently passed their tests in their late 20s and both have had bad crashes that were there own fault (one rolled a Sierra, one hit the central reservation at 100 in France!).
It is only through experience from dings, accidents and if you're lucky just near misses that you become a better driver.
As for making the test itself harder - this seems like a good idea but would also have the side effect of increasing the number of drivers who don't bother with a licence. Although why there is no compulsory motorway driving (test, lessons or sub licence?) I don't know
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