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Canary42 | 17:35 Sun 12th Jan 2025 | News
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From time to time the subject of an upper age limit for car drivers is debated here.

Lorry drivers are in charge of significantly more dangerous vehicles so perhaps they should retire at 60.

Two innocent victims who are now dead would still be alive if that were the case:-

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c7vd6n66m4jo

You should drive at such a speed that you can stop within the distance that you can see.  This lorry driver didn't, or wasn't looking out. 

 

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probably texting or something.

Speculation will be rife on this news item.

More likely a bunch of Albanian"asylum seekers" in the back 3T.

Lorry drivers have to have a medical test and an eye test every year from the age of 65, every five years for 45 - 60 year olds and all new drivers have to have a medical and eye test.

We don't know why this lorry driver had this accident, maybe his age had nothing to do with it.  

 

 

Oh Barry, you're being too sensible for this site.  Think the lorry driver was a member of the IRA and it was full of SNP supporters. 

"This lorry driver didn't, or wasn't looking out."

Do younger lorry drivers not make similar mistakes?

"Two innocent victims who are now dead would still be alive if that were the case:-"

It’s certainly true that if the lorry driver had been prevented from driving because of his age, the deaths might not have occurred. However, there are lots of other “ifs”. For example:

- If the original collision had not occurred (wonder what the age of the drivers involved was).

- If neither of the victims had gone out last night.

You are making the assumption that the accident happened due to the lorry driver’s age. And you just don’t know that.

I've seen several times on those police type programs truckers stopped, watching films, doing crosswords, playing games on their phone etc so it could be one of those.

Why should a perfectly fit lorry driver have to find a new job at 60?

We don't know what happened.

@17.59.What the hell is the IRA or the SNP got to do with it Maggie?You still on the hooch after Xmas?

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Looks like it TTT.

As for the OP, surely until we do know the reason anything else is pure speculation?

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