I'm in my mid-sixties. I work through the gears pretty quickly when setting off from a stop and generally I stick to the speed limit. However, I don't view the posted speed limit as being the speed all traffic should always travel on a particular stretch of road regardless of the driving conditions, so it's not unusual for me to have some young twat sitting on my back bumper.
In Britain, the default speed limit on rural roads is 60 mph. That applies even on roads that are so narrow there's not enough room for two cars to get past each other and where there's nothing but one blind curve after another. Only an idiot would try to stick to sixty on roads like that, but there's no shortage of prats - usually young and usually testosterone-fuelled - who do just that. The speed limit in urban areas is 30 mph, but only a fool will stick to that in areas where there are loads of junctions where you can't see vehicles that might be coming from side-roads or where there are lots of kids messing around behind cars parked along the road.
I'm certain there are older drivers who shouldn't be on the road at all because they can't see well and some who have some sort of neurological condition which affects the speed of their decision making and reflexes. But the statistics clearly show that the majority of accidents are caused by young drivers who overestimate their skills and lack the ability to anticipate potential hazards that you only acquire after driving for years.
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I'm in my mid-sixties. I work through the gears pretty quickly when setting off from a stop and generally I stick to the speed limit. However, I don't view the posted speed limit as being the speed all traffic should always travel on a particular stretch of road regardless of the driving conditions, so it's not unusual for me to have some young twat sitting on my back bumper.
In Britain, the default speed limit on rural roads is 60 mph. That applies even on roads that are so narrow there's not enough room for two cars to get past each other and where there's nothing but one blind curve after another. Only an idiot would try to stick to sixty on roads like that, but there's no shortage of prats - usually young and usually testosterone-fuelled - who do just that. The speed limit in urban areas is 30 mph, but only a fool will stick to that in areas where there are loads of junctions where you can't see vehicles that might be coming from side-roads or where there are lots of kids messing around behind cars parked along the road.
I'm certain there are older drivers who shouldn't be on the road at all because they can't see well and some who have some sort of neurological condition which affects the speed of their decision making and reflexes. But the statistics clearly show that the majority of accidents are caused by young drivers who overestimate their skills and lack the ability to anticipate potential hazards that you only acquire after driving for years.