Give up the licence, Grandma!
| 08:46 UK time, Thursday, 6 March 2008
OAP drivers who are a menace on the roads should be banned, says from who recommends that people have a word with their " 鈥楪reat Aunt Nellie鈥 and telling her that perhaps it is time to hand in her licence".
The picked up on his comments which were made at a meeting of .
The chief said that while the total number of road collisions was down in the region there was still concern over some issues, including the abilities of some older motorists.
鈥淚 am aware that there are sensitivities involved but some of these drivers should not be on the road,鈥 he said.
The late Granny Bourne was one such motorist, never a natural anyway [she'd duck her head as she drove under bridges and used the car's bumpers and wings to 'feel' her way when reverse parking into the garage]. We gained a free car and the roads of Staffordshire were that bit safer!
