HRH crash

[Deleted member 6183]

He was

I had thought that an exception would have been made given his age.

An elderly man managed to crash into my parked car some years ago and was excused.

 

[mark44]

My nan drove well into her late ninety's and had been driving so long (without an accident I might add) they had to make special veterans badges for her.

Unfortunately for her (and PP) she was driving on borrowed time. There was an incident (non-accident) and she had to stop driving after that.

I think her loss of independent mobility accelerated (pardon the pun) her mental and physical degeneration.

Cant imagine PP will be driving after this regardless of the circumstances.

 

[BaldGuy]

It was a Freelander not a Range Rover....

 

[Deleted member 126251]

Too old to be driving ....discuss.

Too young & inexperienced to be driving.....Discuss

Driving schools that teach young drivers how to pass the test and not how to be safe drivers.
Cars too easy to buy and young drivers are more likely to be drivers of uninsured and unsafe cars.
Probably on the road more often than older drivers.
Limited experience and risk takers .....no license until you turn 25 ?


I am pro retesting (medical and competence) once a driver is past a certain age. I also think that all drivers should be made to take refresher courses every 'x' number of years. Too many really bad drivers on the road.

 

[saff]

So the Duke is unharmed. What about the peasants sorry occupants in the other car involved.

Yeah, it seems the riff-raff in the other car are ok, including the baby on board. This was mentioned this morning. Still, as long as HRH is well !!!

 

[saff]

View attachment 82711 Shame.
Looks perfectly ok to drive a car to me.

Box of frogs?

 

[geraldrobins]

Too young & inexperienced to be driving.....Discuss

Driving schools that teach young drivers how to pass the test and not how to be safe drivers.
Cars too easy to buy and young drivers are more likely to be drivers of uninsured and unsafe cars.
Probably on the road more often than older drivers.
Limited experience and risk takers .....no license until you turn 25 ?


I am pro retesting (medical and competence) once a driver is past a certain age. I also think that all drivers should be made to take refresher courses every 'x' number of years. Too many really dad drivers on the road.

Retesting is one thing but the instances of poor driving I see are not due to lack of knowledge but due to people not bothering to drive correctly. Maybe because they are in a hurry or impatient but not due to lack of knowledge.
As for young drivers lets not forget many are capable and responsible.

 

[geraldrobins]

Yeah, it seems the riff-raff in the other car are ok, including the baby on board. This was mentioned this morning. Still, as long as HRH is well !!!

Its getting far too much media attention in my opinion. Other similar incidents happen daily.

 

[moonloops]

HRH Prince Phlip

 

[renault12ts]

Talk this morning of reducing the speed limit on that section of this road.

Anyone can make a mistake...but only when you are nearly 98 will anyone suggest you be banned...for life.

 

[grober]

As someone touched on earlier there are societal/individual benefits as well as disadvantages in facilitating/maintaining mobility for the elderly and these should be carefully balanced against decreased competency to drive. In an increasingly elderly society a lack of personal mobility may increase elderly dependancy on either relatives [if lucky] or social services [if not] depending on factors such as availability of public transport. At the moment checks on competency are pretty crude with self declaration of medical fitness to drive after 70 and regrettably often accident involvement as the "final arbiter " so to speak.
Any increased stringency of retesting applied to elderly drivers might appropriately be accompanied by provision of licence gradation or restriction rather than complete removal--e.g.initially restrictions in where, when and how the elderly may drive [ hours of daylight, motorways, power of vehicle etc ] in the event of tested reduced competency. In this way the roads might become safer without society paying in other ways. This could be mirrored by similar restrictions for several years for young, inexperienced drivers who have just passed their driving test in the form of a novice driver licence . At the moment "assessment by accident" appears to be the rather crude assessment tool of fitness to drive for the young also. A slightly more sophisticated licencing approach in both cases might be worth pursuing?

 

[renault12ts]

Its getting far too much media attention in my opinion. Other similar incidents happen daily.

Of course they do...but when a senior member of the the Royal family is involved it would be incredible if it didn't get this attention. Your own post is part of the whole picture.

 

[Deleted member 6183]

It was a Freelander not a Range Rover....

There are some that would argue that it was, in fact, a freeloader.

 

[SpoonJar]

I wonder if he just pulled out without looking. Royals must be so used to junctions, roundabouts and traffic lights being open to them so they can travel safely without stopping.

 

[Deleted member 126251]

As for young drivers lets not forget many are capable and responsible.

as are older drivers - probably more so than the young ones

 

[E55BOF]

Yeah, it seems the riff-raff in the other car are ok, including the baby on board. This was mentioned this morning. Still, as long as HRH is well !!!

AS a matter of fact, as opposed to prejudice, every report I saw yesterday (on the not noticeably strongly-royalist BBC) stated that Prince Philip was shaken but unhurt, and the two ladies in the other car were treated in hospital for minor injuries. There was no mention of a baby in any of them.

 

[grober]

Yeah, it seems the riff-raff in the other car are ok, including the baby on board. This was mentioned this morning. Still, as long as HRH is well !!!

One broken arm, [ possible collarbone from seatbelt?? ] + one damaged knee and an unscathed baby in a car seat in the back evidently according to the Sun
Some fairly typical injuries in a survivably impact where the passengers were adequately restrained
Prince Philip breathalysed by police after horror Land Rover crash

 

[Deleted member 6183]

AS a matter of fact, as opposed to prejudice, every report I saw yesterday (on the not noticeably strongly-royalist BBC) stated that Prince Philip was shaken but unhurt, and the two ladies in the other car were treated in hospital for minor injuries. There was no mention of a baby in any of them.

Are you sure?

 

[renault12ts]

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[grober]

Correction broken wrist not arm and a nine-month-old baby----https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-46918039