Does driving need an upper age limit?

By patric

look it was a one off,some silly old fart without a driving licence,took a car and killed himself.so????????????the law as it stands is ok! i would be more worried about the silly young fools,who seem to kill themselves and others at a more alarming rate,there the ones that need looking at.

By Jeffrey Huffadine

As for that unlicenced 86year old driver even if he was still alive he would or maynot have to resit his driverslicence but now that he is dead I for one totally disagree with some of the other opinionists.The government and its stupid laws don't even work and I don't think that there should be an upper age limit despite the fact that I don't drive a motorvehicle myself.

By Paul Le Bas

Too many of our young ones are not taught to drive as they should be Texting on mobiles has killed so many here in Perth

By David

I am an Occupational Therapist and the service i work for completes Driving Assessments. We compelte an 'off-road' assessment where a person's cognitive ability to drive is measured. We also complete 'on road' assessments where we assess how a person manages to drive in a variety of situations.

Age alone is not the factor that should determine if people should stop driving. It is their medical fitness to drive.
I have found that some people in thier late nineties are just as capabale of driving safely as 'younger' drivers are.

By betty will

Poor girl head down working hard ..didin't see it coming maybe he wanted to end his life with a bang.

By Steve

Once again it takes deaths before people are willing to take a problem seriously.
This guy was driving for about three years on an expired licence - had he been able to get his car registration renewed in his own name?

Classes and testing need to be mandatory for younger drivers and elderly drivers, otherwise there will be just more deaths.