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Category: Aging driver challenges

See common sense with spare specs in the car

February 24, 2025 murrellp@bigpond.com Aging driver challenges, Need to know

A MAJORITY OF PEOPLE (and especially older people) need to wear prescription glasses when driving. And even though 95 percent of sensory input to the brain comes from the eyes, a significant proportion of people

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Changing a headlight bulb isn’t difficult

January 2, 2025 murrellp@bigpond.com Aging driver challenges, Need to know

ANY DRIVE OUTING HIGHLIGHTS just how many drivers don’t know (or don’t care) that one or more of their lights is inoperable. It’s dangerous and unnecessary and, in our opinion, is another argument for regular

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Towing puts you at greater risk. Tow WISER.

October 1, 2024 murrellp@bigpond.com Aging driver challenges, Need to know

DRIVERS PULLING CARAVANS, HORSE FLOATS, boats and other trailers are encouraged to tow WISER this summer. Here’s a line-up of five simple tips for safer towing in an attempt to reduce incidents, injuries and unnecessary breakdown

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On the school run? Safety first may save a life.

September 25, 2024 murrellp@bigpond.com Aging driver challenges, Need to know

DESPITE LOW SPEED LIMITS and parking and other regulations, children are still being injured in and around schools. It’s up to every one of us to keep them safe. When you’re in or around a

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Selfish drivers of huge utes to pay a parking penalty

July 15, 2024 murrellp@bigpond.com Aging driver challenges, Need to know

WE’RE NOT SURE IF IT’S just a cash grab or a genuine attempt to make drivers of huge utes pay more to park them. A Melbourne council has given its support for a proposal which

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Once again, motorists are hit with increases

July 5, 2024 murrellp@bigpond.com Aging driver challenges, Need to know

MOST POLITICIANS SEE MOTORISTS (and that’s almost all of us) as nothing more than a bottomless pit of funds. Whenever they need higher income, they simply raise motoring costs and penalties. Motorists in Victoria will

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99-year-old takes course to get back behind the wheel

September 22, 2023 murrellp@bigpond.com Aging driver challenges, Need to know

WITH MORE AND MORE OLDER drivers being pressured to surrender their driving licences, one 99-year-old Englishman should be an inspiration to us all. He’ll turn 100 next year, but that doesn’t stop Don Mitchell dreaming

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What do you do when a child is locked in a car?

July 7, 2023 murrellp@bigpond.com Aging driver challenges, Need to know

WE READ ABOUT IT almost every week, and most of us wonder how it can happen. Until it happens to us. Discovering a child has locked themselves inside a car with the keys can be

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As we get older, the eyes have it

March 23, 2023 murrellp@bigpond.com Aging driver challenges, Need to know

OUR VISION DETERIORATES as we get older, often without us even being aware of it. And the importance of good vision when driving can’t be stressed enough. Reducing the number of drivers on the road

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Tesla owners face long queues to recharge

January 2, 2023 murrellp@bigpond.com Aging driver challenges, Electric vehicles

THE STRUGGLE TO produce the infrastructure to deal with the booming sales of EVs is having its inevitable consequences. As reported by the UK Daily Mail, over Christmas, long queues of Teslas were seen in

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