Millions of older motorists could be restricted from taking simple trips to the town simply because they won’t have the capacity to pay for parking, says leading vehicle breakdown recovery provider Start Rescue. As local authorities increasingly move to ‘pay by app’ systems, pensioners who do not have a smartphone …
Read More »Safer driving tips for senior citizens
More people are are driving for longer than even before. Today, two thirds of people aged 70 and over still hold a driving licence, compared with less than 40% in the mid 1990s. However, recently released road casualty figures for 2019 show a 9% increase in the number of people …
Read More »Car insurance premiums accelerating
The cost of motor insurance is continuing to rise. Over the last 12 months, prices have increased by 14% – equivalent to £95 – on average. This means a driver can now expect to pay £767 for a typical comprehensive car insurance policy – the costliest amount since mid-2012 when …
Read More »Driving Back The Years
According to yet another one of those endless motoring surveys there are now more than seven million drivers over the age of sixty-five on the Britain’s roads. The number of drivers over the current pensionable age had reached 7,191,192 by November last year. This makes up nineteen per cent of …
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