Compulsory re-testing for over 65's

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Yeah but consider the amount spent by the Government on Police & the NHS in dealing with RTCs, and how much it could be cut with additional tuition, and ultimately rooting out the people who just can't drive... I'd almost go as far as to suggest they'd have change from it after subsidising the additional tuition... Might even be able to put that towards seeing to the hideous state of the roads these days...

Yeah exactly, the last car crash I went to was 2 women on a roundabout, sub 15mph impact speed. however as usual one vehicle was smoking (read steaming from a popped radiator) and so the fire brigade were called, an ambulance for the party with the sore neck, possible whiplash and the police to close the road and report the accident.

So 2 fire engines (12 firefighters), a proper ambulance and a first responder (3 ambulance staff) and 2 police cars (4 coppers) were all on scene for about an hour. 20 hours of tax payers money at about £20 an hour for the wages = £400 then the injured party went to hospital for about 4 hours to be x rayed and that, well you can add another grand to the bill, plus then the time to finish the collision report book (about another 2 hours of police time) that then goes up to the collision investigators to decide weather or not to summons anyone to court for their part in the accident maybe another couple of hours of police time there then all the fuel for all the emergency vehicles and the share of brake tyre and misc wear on them and things that are used like a bag of sand by trumpton and all the bits that the ambulance use.

You can see how very quickly the cost to the tax payer for that incredibly minor accident runs to a couple of grand

Id reckon that a serious/fatal accident could cost the tax payer literally tens of thousands of pounds.

Just to throw my 2p in, I think people that drive for a living should have much more frequent driving assessments. Taxi drivers especially. f*cking nut jobs in the majority. And everyone everywhere should have a minimum of 5 hours indicator training and 10 hours roundabout/junction lane usage training. The number of times I've had to lock up the abs on a 3.5t transit because some retard doesn't know what lane to be in I don't know.

Yeah, every other car crash i see either involves a minicab or a delivery driver.