I'm sick and tired of hearing how people whinge about younger drivers especially those on their L's or P's. It's about time society realised that it doesn't matter if your 15 years old or 80 years old there is no such thing as a perfect driver, these days we all have distrations it could be turning your music up, changing your music/radio channel, talking to your passengers, turning the air conditioning/heater on/off etc.
On Sunday night while watching RBT on Channel 9 a 76 year old lady tried to avoid the booze bus, now you can bet all the money in the world this wouldn't have made any media outlets and if it did it would have got a small meantion. Yet if it was a L or P plater then it would have been big news all over the media.
I do understand that some not all young people can be silly behind the wheel of a car but I'm also trying to point out no matter what age a person is everyone has been or maybe silly behind the wheel at some stage and if you want to give L or P platers a bad name then you need to give every driver including yourself a bad name.
You may ask well do you give yourself a bad name and my answer to that is yes I do with so much to concentrate on when your on the road it's not easy to be a perfect driver & as I said earlier there is no such thing as a perfect driver.
Also another thought that has just popped into my mind why is it the older drivers who mainly have their open Licences that ran over a child(ren) in the drive way you hear more reports of parents doing that then L or P platers yet once again a L or P plater could do that just as easy as a older person.
Plus look at all the truck drivers that have accidents all of them are older people who have their open licence and not their L's or P's
It was only a few weeks ago that our family drove from Brisbane to Penrith and had a lady who must have been about 45 years old sitting on our tail & overtaking at different places through Warwick all the way down to Scone. Comming home we had a guy around 60 sitting on our tail & over taking between Newcastle & Coffs Habour.
I'm not trying to say one group is better then the other far from it I'm trying to point out everyone is a bad driver, now you know my thoughts I would love to hear your thoughts on this.
UPDATE: Friday 9th July 2010 Maybe the media has been listening to me as I found this in the Courier Mail (Queensland) Newspaper http://tinyurl.com/3amnxw
Hi! Welcome to the blogosphere. Thanks for popping by the Fibro - I love checking out new blogs. I think you're absolutely right in what you say - there are a lot of older drivers around my area and they can be as much of a hazard as a speeding P-Plater. It doesn't matter what age you are, we all owe it to each other to follow the rules, be aware and be respectful. Great post.
ReplyDeleteThank you for your post, was giving up hope of hearing other people's thoughts on this topic. This blog is still new so please stick with me if you can while this blog starts out on it's baby steps. Love your blog as well
ReplyDeleteOh yes, I know what you mean. Oldies can be as much, sometimes more of a danger than young ones. It comes down to individuals ...regardless of who they are, or their ages, scary drivers are just, well scary! Perhaps there needs to be more regular testing of ALL drivers, say everytime a licence needs to be renewed? (Fingers crossed I would pass!)
ReplyDeleteAnd this is why I don't drive. I'd be the one that everyone else crashes into, I just know it!
ReplyDeleteAlso I prefer walking.
Have to agree with you on that Bronnie a test for all drivers when there licence comes up.
ReplyDeleteOnly problem I see with that is some people renew their licence's for 5 years so a test maybe every 2 yrs?
It's my written I'm scared of passing as I just freeze up with the practical I'm good.
ReplyDeleteOne driver school instuctor told me once when chatting to him that some stage in around 2015 we are only going to do practicle exams for driving think I'll get my licence then