Time to hand back licence?

[mirras]

While out cycling this morning ( legally and with due consideration to ALL road users ) I took a slip road off a dual carriageway to be met by a little old lady trying to join the main road in the wrong direction. I managed to stop her and asked her to stand on the verge. I turned her car around and had the briefest of conversations ( given we were on the slip of a main road ) and asked her nicely to drive home carefully and have a cup of tea. She knew she had made a mistake and where but had panicked so kept going.

I got home soon after and called 101 to report the 'incident' and they said they would follow it up. A similar action cost the lives of two young girls 4 years ago further along the same stretch of road. I do hope the lady understands the seriousness of what could have happened. Time to hang up the driving gloves I think.

 

[j.schmeltzer]

I had a similar event last week. Proceeding up a lengthy one way (well marked) street in my village (one way in and one way out), I was surprised to see a Clio with three old people in it heading directly towards me. I stopped, flashed my lights and waved my arm out the window. The lady driver realized her error, did a 7 point turn and drove off.
I am well into pensioner status myself. I do notice a deterioration in eyesight, hearing and general road awareness.
There will come a time when I hang up the keys and my wife will see to that.
It is like the old joke, "My granddad died a quiet, peaceful death,
unlike the four screaming passengers in his car."

Unfortunately it isn't funny in real life.

 

[S80WKR]

I was going for my lunch and turned into a one way street, (2 Lanes wide, 1 Lane used for parking) to be confronted by a New Jeep coming the other way, so I flashed my lights and did my best to explain it was one way.

I assumed they has realised their error as they then reversed back up the street and then blocked the entrance to the car park I wanted to get into, much to the confusion of the cars trying to exit the car park.

When I put on my indicator to turn they then decided to mount the kerb and drive the entire length of the one way street on the pavement and out the other end!

The driver was well under pensionable age too!