Follow up to accident earlier this month.

Sniper8052(L96A1)

David Martin wrote:
> Simon Mason wrote:
>
>> I'd go through the insurance and if it gets her off the road then that
>> will only make the roads safer for everybody else. There are buses in
>> Doncaster, so she should get a season OAP pass and dump her car for
>> good. Or she could get a PC and get stuff delivered to her door.
>
>
> My Gran voluntarily returned her license when she felt unable to drive.
> Whilst her eyesight was technically fine, here visual awareness was
> sufficiently to pot that she managed to put her BMW in a ditch twice the
> first time she drove it after a long layoff. The money you get for the
> car buys an awful lot of taxi fares and nice drivers who will carry your
> shopping to the door.
>
> You are doing the right thing. I'd insist in any accident where
> inability to drive safely may be a factor that 1) plod attend and 2) the
> person is sight tested.
>
> This problem is only going to get worse as the population ages.
>
> ..d
>


Report her to everyone and then report the incident to the DVLC, at
which time you can mention all the hear say evidence, who will pull her
licence for her or at least compel her to have a medical fitness to
drive test.
Sniper8052

PS I know they have a new name now I just can never get my head around
it when I want it. There must be some psychologist on the group who
knows what the term for that is other than lousy memory
Sniper

Geoff Pearson

"Paul - xxx" <notcheckedever@hotmail.com> wrote in message
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> See thread titled 'Thanks .. '
>
> DOLL (Doddery Old Little Lady) came by this morning to see how I was, same
> car, but even more dents and scrapes in it. She found where I lived 'cos
> most folk round here know I'm the Caretaker at the Infant and Junior
> schools in the village. Anyway, she's fine and dandy and "not at all
> worried about driving" so she is still driving, "but only on roads I know
> and where I know I'm going" and "only when it's light enough to see
> properly".
>
> The second one really struck home, it seems she's partially sighted and
> wears dark sunglasses, which didn't register with me during the accident,
> and when we had our accident she had been wearing them, even though I was
> wearing sulphur yellow glasses to heighten the brightness / contrast, it
> being a particularly dull day. Apparently she'd also hit a car at the
> next roundabout after leaving me, but "it was only a small accident", and
> she was "in no fit state to drive, really" ... I was gob-smacked ....
>
> After already deciding that I was going to write this one off, I'm now
> going through her insurance company for everything. New pedals, seat, bar
> grips, shoes, gloves, shirt, jacket and track pants, all of which, 'cept
> the jacket, only got scuffed really and are pretty serviceable, plus a
> couple of hundred for hassle, pain and suffering (whatever they call it)
> etc ..
>
> She wanted to give me £100 for the crash instead of going through
> insurance because she thinks they'll take her licence away if she's
> "investigated AGAIN" .. her words, my emphasis ... I said nothing to her
> directly, just got her full insurance details, home address etc etc, which
> I hadn't bothered with at the time of the accident. (St00pid, I know, but
> hey ... )
>
> I think every road user would be better without her on the road,
> personally, and while I can't be certain that they'll take her licence
> away, I do think that if I follow proper channels it _is_ likely. While I
> feel a pang of conscience at depriving an old lady of some freedom, I feel
> that the safety of others is of more concern, so I'm playing it 'by the
> book'.
>
> If she hadn't come round and tried to bribe me, or if she'd have simply
> posted the £100 and a note saying sorry, no-one would know any more about
> it., nothing more would have been done. As it is I now feel compelled to
> do things properly, and if it means her loss of licence, then I think
> everyone using the roads would be better off.
>
> Still can't help feeling like a bit of a shit though ...
>
> So, 2 options, what would others do?
>
> 1. Report her via the insurance company,
> or
> 2. leave it and chalk it down to experience.
>
>
> --
> Paul ...
> http://www.4x4prejudice.org/index.php
> (8(!) Homer Rules ...
> "A tosser is a tosser, no matter what mode of transport they're using."
>

I think you should report the accident and the follow-up to the police. She
will kill someone if she stays on the road and only the law can remove her.

Just zis Guy, you know?

On Fri, 31 Dec 2004 12:10:29 -0000, "Paul - xxx"
<notcheckedever@hotmail.com> wrote in message
<33kttoF42bl8aU1@individual.net>:

To echo all the others,

>she's fine and dandy and "not at all worried about
>driving" so she is still driving, "but only on roads I know and where I know
>I'm going" and "only when it's light enough to see properly".

Quite right, too. It's just the rest of us who should be worried...

Sorry, DLOL, but the time has come to hang up your car keys. I would
involve Mr Plod at this point. A rural please man should be able to
have a quiet word without making anything official unless she takes
the hint.

>The second one really struck home, it seems she's partially sighted

I have not the words!

>She wanted to give me £100 for the crash instead of going through insurance
>because she thinks they'll take her licence away if she's "investigated
>AGAIN"

I can think of no better reason to involve the insurers!

>I think every road user would be better without her on the road, personally,

Hard to disagree :-)

>So, 2 options, what would others do?
>1. Report her via the insurance company,
>2. leave it and chalk it down to experience.

Report. And to the police, informally at first if possible. Next
time it could be a child.

Guy
--
"then came ye chavves, theyre cartes girded wyth candels
blue, and theyre beastes wyth straynge horn-lyke thyngs
onn theyre arses that theyre fartes be herde from myles
around." Chaucer, the Sheppey Tales

Dave Kahn

Sniper8052(L96A1) wrote:

> PS I know they have a new name now I just can never get my head around
> it when I want it. There must be some psychologist on the group who
> knows what the term for that is other than lousy memory

Alzheimers. :-)

--
Dave...

Every time I see an adult on a bicycle, I no longer despair for the
future of the human race. - H. G. Wells

Paul Stevenson

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> "Paul - xxx" <notcheckedever@hotmail.com> wrote in message
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> >
> > So, 2 options, what would others do?
> >
> > 1. Report her via the insurance company,
> > or
> > 2. leave it and chalk it down to experience.
>
> You can always wait and see who she hits next.

It might be a child from one of your schools!

Shop her please, for her own sake as much as others.

Paul