Should over-70s face a driving curfew at night?

DRIVERS over the age of 70 with certain medical conditions could be subject to night-time curfews and restrictions on how far they can travel (Mail). There goes my ability to attend night matches at Anfield, where I still work at the age of 75. There goes my annual driving holiday in Scotland. There go my speaking engagements in other parts of the country. And as for a day out in Blackpool with the grandchildren, no chance! Can I suggest that before the DVLA starts on the likes of me — clean licence, non-drinker, respectable citizen — it should turn its attention to drink-drivers, drug addicts, boy racers, uninsured idiots and those who use a mobile phone at the wheel. What’s the point of coming out of lockdown if I’m confined to the house?

GEORGE SEPHTON, Liverpool.

TRACKING devices fitted to vehicles driven by those over 70 with dementia, epilepsy, Parkinson’s or insulin-treated diabetes is blatant age discrimination. Most serious road traffic accidents involve male drivers under the age of 25, so why pick on those of us with years of experience, often accident-free?

GEOFFREY H. LAZELL, Diss, Norfolk.

AFTER all the deprivations the over-70s have suffered over the past 12 months, some bright spark wants to place us under curfew and restrict where we may travel. As an HGV driver, I have witnessed a prolonged degradation of driving standards. It is younger drivers who ignore speed limits, tailgate, undertake and drive in an intimidating fashion. With few traffic police on the roads, they have no fear of being caught. Accident fatalities have risen in the past decade, but why blame older drivers?

G. DAWSON, Liverpool.

IF THERE are to be fit-to-drive assessments for the over-70s, it is only fair to have fit-to-cycle tests for the Lycra louts who ignore the Highway Code.

J. WALMSLEY, Bury, Gtr Manchester.