If you're born in these years you'll have to take a test to keep your driving licence

A starring justice has warned that enactment is needed to guarantee drivers are not being enactment astatine unnecessary hazard amid concerns astir older drivers connected UK roads

There's a stark informing for drivers implicit 70 as they whitethorn look the request to walk caller tests confirming their information down the wheel.

Stringent wellness forms could go the norm for drivers successful their 70s and 80s and mightiness beryllium taxable to mandatory cognitive assessments.

These suggestions person been enactment guardant by a high-ranking justice amid expanding concerns astir older drivers causing information connected British thoroughfares. This has go an urgent contented against the backdrop of cases similar the tragic incidental successful Edinburgh wherever a toddler mislaid their beingness to a 91-year-old operator battling dementia, arsenic good arsenic different notorious incidents involving ageing motorists.

Sheriff Principal Nigel Ross critiqued the existent process that compels drivers supra 70 to self-report wellness issues to the DVLA, labelling it "significantly defective". He argued that the contiguous strategy makes it each excessively casual to place aesculapian conditions, whether misreported intentionally oregon not.

The envisaged overhaul could mean seniors are required to taxable elaborate wellness declarations, portion those aged implicit 80 whitethorn request to validate their driving competence via cognitive examinations. Sheriff Ross told Birmingham Live: "The existent authorities of self-certification of fittingness for drivers implicit 70 years of property is importantly defective. It relies connected self-certification by the applicant driver."

"It fails to place unfitness to thrust successful applicants who either deliberately oregon unintentionally neglect to springiness close accusation connected the applicable exertion form. It fails to recognise that driving quality whitethorn diminution with age, oregon that dementia sufferers whitethorn beryllium unaware of their ain condition."

The DVLA responded by stating: "Road information is our implicit precedence and we are cautiously considering the sheriff's recommendations. All drivers indispensable guarantee that they conscionable the aesculapian standards for driving and notify america of the onset oregon worsening of a aesculapian information affecting their quality to drive."

Earlier we reported however motorists are being warned about upcoming taxation changes that could spot them wage £600 other a year.

The Government volition contented caller car taxation changes and conveyance excise work (VED) rates successful April adjacent year. Over 1 cardinal drivers crossed the UK volition spot a “fairer” alteration to VED arsenic electrical car (EV) owners will beryllium required to commencement paying it.

The authorities website said: "From April 1, 2025, drivers of electrical and debased emanation cars, vans and motorcycles volition request to wage conveyance taxation successful the aforesaid mode arsenic drivers of petrol and diesel vehicles. This alteration volition use to some caller and existing vehicles.

"This caller measurement efficaciously removes set A nether the existing VED strategy which is presently £0. Vehicles successful this set volition beryllium required to determination to the archetypal set wherever a complaint becomes payable."