Being an elderly driver myself, I have often felt that younger drivers are biased against older drivers' ability behind the wheel. Today I witnessed an elderly driver's behaviour which makes such bias understandable.
Travelling south on the A6 (dual carriageway) out of Leicester, the inner of the two lanes was crawling, and drivers were pulling out when the outer lane was clear. I eventually followed suit, and saw that the reason was an elderly driver crawling in the nearside lane.
Eventually after turning into our local Sainsbury's and having parked the car, OH and myself proceeded towards the store. We stopped to let by a couple of incoming cars, and one was that driven by this same elderly driver. As he made a left turn into a two lane access between parked cars, he went wide to his right and had to stop before hitting a parked van, and then reverse in order to get into this access. He then went around to the disabled bays and had great trouble in getting into a space with the usual generous hatched lines on each side of the bay. In the end he left his car at an angle, with the front end at the r/h edge of the bay, and the rear end fully straddling the hatched lines on the left.
OH's advice - "if he (and his wife(?)) come out at the same time as us, don't let him get behind you".
My reply, "Don't want him behind OR in front!"
Travelling south on the A6 (dual carriageway) out of Leicester, the inner of the two lanes was crawling, and drivers were pulling out when the outer lane was clear. I eventually followed suit, and saw that the reason was an elderly driver crawling in the nearside lane.
Eventually after turning into our local Sainsbury's and having parked the car, OH and myself proceeded towards the store. We stopped to let by a couple of incoming cars, and one was that driven by this same elderly driver. As he made a left turn into a two lane access between parked cars, he went wide to his right and had to stop before hitting a parked van, and then reverse in order to get into this access. He then went around to the disabled bays and had great trouble in getting into a space with the usual generous hatched lines on each side of the bay. In the end he left his car at an angle, with the front end at the r/h edge of the bay, and the rear end fully straddling the hatched lines on the left.
OH's advice - "if he (and his wife(?)) come out at the same time as us, don't let him get behind you".
My reply, "Don't want him behind OR in front!"
