Should older drivers have to take extra tests to keep their licences?

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With concerns about road accidents involving older drivers, we ask locals whether they think drivers should be taken off the roads at a certain age, or if extra testing should be introduced to keep everyone safe.

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00:00I don't think they should have their license taken off of them. I think they should, when

00:07they get to a certain age, I think they should go for an extra test, do you know what I mean?

00:15Just to make sure everything's all good, the eyesight and all that sort of stuff, their

00:18reactions, do you know what I mean?

00:21I think they should have to take extra tests when they reach their certain age. What that

00:25age is, I don't know, because it varies. You get some 75-year-olds who are really, really

00:30old and you get some 85-year-olds that are still quite young. But I think you do need

00:35to bring in some sort of test.

00:38I know people who've got eyesight problems, what they didn't have back when they first

00:43passed their test or they weren't as bad. And as they've got older, it's got worse and

00:47they shouldn't be driving now, but they're perfectly legal to drive. So it's one of them,

00:53you should have to do a refresher every so often. Yeah, I do agree with that.

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