Doesn't the risk of older drivers seem lower than it really is because a significant % of the license holders simply don't drive at all? Also the vast majority of older drivers also do not drive during peak times, these factors are not considered in the data when comparing % of license holders at x age to decree risk, also time of day as we all know that this also has a significant impact on chances of an incident.
I was close passed on Sunday a few times, the worst of which was an elderly driver in a small car, no slowing down just piled past within 12", not for the first time might add that the older driver does this and IME they are more prevalent at it than any other group or vehicle type.
As for the 'older drivers don't speed', well I see plenty of the retirees/well over 70 bombing it and not just on higher speed roads, urban roads too were they are well in excess of 30mph don't people kid themselves that crumblies don't drive fast!
That said, retesting, physical health tests and other restrictions should be across the board, successive governments are complicit in KSIs by the tens if not hundreds of thousands because they fail to act on known issues with motorists that kill and maim.
Driving ages, if you're good enough you're old enough, if you prove to fall down on that level (which should be significantly higher than is currently) then we need to find ways that actually have some resonance with those drivers such that it has a greater affect on them idrectly and their attitude plus also one for the rest so they do not lapse as often as they do now.
There's been a massive reliance on technology to aid drivers and to get them out of trouble, KSIs are going back up (and for people on bikes has risen since the mid 2000s though explained in part by huge increases in helmet wearing from that period onward) so as this tech advances, the skill level of motoring has gone backwards by a lot. Isn't it about 4% of the driving population that don't have licenses or any of the other bits of paper to be legal on the roads anyway, I reckon it'll probably be much higher than that.
Things just cannot go on as they are and yet it will, there will be no changes to the law that benefits safety, no changes to instruction nor checking all drivers continually. We've had useless DRLs, allowed intensely bright headlamps that blind, allowed entertainment units in motors that have screens as big as a large laptop and more so that motorists can be even more distracted even if they don't have sat nav or their phones to stare at. Caught with the phone/device being used whilst driving should come with the same penalty as drink driving, that it isn't is criminal.
Nope, focusing on learner instruction on Sat nav use and parking on the wrong side of the road and not bothering to use indicators as the norm on these manoeuvres - I see this virtually every day on the estate road and infuriates me smething chronic as does the overtaking of parked vehicles so I can just drive right at you learner driving, one where apparently-3" is plenty of room!
Meh
Lost his no claims bonus 
