87 year old. Stopped driving needs alternative for getting around farm.

[Kiss]

Suzuki Jimmy?

 

[Dry Rot]

I saw an interesting buggy type (sorry!) vehicle the other day on a local estate. It was obviously electric as almost silent. I thought just the job for lamping rabbits as the noise of the quad does alarm them. Presumably no gears which would be a bonus. Didn't have time to ask about the make but maybe I will next time. Are golf buggies any good?

 

[RH15LEW]

Beamer Tramper. Feel free to pm me if you like. Gets me everywhere i need to get to. Round the farm, hunting, shooting, even a walk on the beach

Tramper All-Terrain Mobility Scooters

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[Jerry]

Dad used am old ride on mower with the deck removed to get around before he died.

Bit noisy but it was fine going around the yard and up through the farm and around the grass fields

 

[lloyd]

Gyrocopter or commercial drone.

 

[Y Fan Wen]

Dad used am old ride on mower with the deck removed to get around before he died.

Bit noisy but it was fine going around the yard and up through the farm and around the grass fields

The Straight Story - Wikipedia

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[Zippy768]

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[Oliveau]

Beamer Tramper. Feel free to pm me if you like. Gets me everywhere i need to get to. Round the farm, hunting, shooting, even a walk on the beach

Tramper All-Terrain Mobility Scooters

Tramper Mobility Scooters provide all-terrain mobility for the less-abled since 1998 with over two thousand scooters across the UK and worldwide.

www.tramper.co.uk

As recommended in post #8 above!

 

[RH15LEW]

As recommended in post #8 above!

Must have missed it somehow! Sorry!

 

[br jones]

electric gator

 

[ollie989898]

electric gator

Dare I ask how much one of those is?

 

[Tucker]

Does he lock doors so you can't get him out

Someone ordered the half doors so he can tell me to bugger off without shouting

 

[# Robin]

I got the old boy a Tramper, very good actually and much more robust than you’d initially think. I’ve used it lamping

 

[PSQ]

ollie989898 said:
It may be less of a blow to their self-esteem if they decide to give up driving voluntarily rather than be stopped by a doctor. No adult deserves to be told by another what they can or cannot do.

There comes a time when you can't stand by with a clear conscience, in the full knowledge that you are facilitating a progressively dangerous driver.
It's a conversation that I'll reluctantly be having with a family member the day after they turn 80, in a months time, as there has been mentions from the community of some recent 'incidents'.
The replacement electric buggy is going down a treat despite the looks of disgust when it first arrived.

 

[zero]

Kubota buggy, nice and steady machine, easy to drive, walk through cab and red diesel.

 

[Cowabunga]

They won't give up driving, it makes a joke that a 84 year old who needs 2 sticks to walk can renew their license without any form of medical, just any eye test and unfortunately his eyesight is fantastic for someone of his age ! It's taken us 5 years to get him to stop driving the forklift, he stopped driving that when he simply couldn't climb into it anymore. It is a very difficult subject and I could tell you loads of story's about near misses !

You have a responsibility to ensure everyone’s health and safety and protect them from your aged parents. That includes from themselves. There comes a point where not only physical ability is impaired but also their judgement and if they don’t recognise that they are not fit to drive for themselves, someone must take responsibility on thei behalf and take their means of self drive transport away from them. I’m afraid it is true that some people regress into a second childhood. Some sooner. Some later. It has to be faced.

 

[ollie989898]

There comes a time when you can't stand by with a clear conscience, in the full knowledge that you are facilitating a progressively dangerous driver.
It's a conversation that I'll reluctantly be having with a family member the day after they turn 80, in a months time, as there has been mentions from the community of some recent 'incidents'.
The replacement electric buggy is going down a treat despite the looks of disgust when it first arrived.

Totally agree, I just think it is better to approach these things as sensitively as possible. Being told you can no longer drive by your doctor isn't going to do anyone much good. Better for someone to be encouraged to give up driving through their own choice.

 

[Farmer Roy]

They won't give up driving, it makes a joke that a 84 year old who needs 2 sticks to walk can renew their license without any form of medical, just any eye test and unfortunately his eyesight is fantastic for someone of his age ! It's taken us 5 years to get him to stop driving the forklift, he stopped driving that when he simply couldn't climb into it anymore. It is a very difficult subject and I could tell you loads of story's about near misses !

wow

Here, once you are over 75 you have to have an annual medical

over 85, you can have a “restricted” licence which only allows you to drive within 5 km of your home

over 85, an “unrestricted” driving licence means you have to pass a driving test every year


my mother ( who my sister & I were getting increasingly concerned about her driving ), used to regularly drive 2 or 3 times a week from the village she lived in, 20km to town, for shopping, church, something to do, etc

Anyway, there were road works and a 60km speed limit ( down from the usual 100km ). Mum got frustrated by the slow car in front of her, overtook it across double lines, through a road works & continued at 100km/hr.
Just to add to it, there was a police car on the road at the same time. They followed her another 10km ( apparently with lights & sirens, according to a neighbour ) to her house. She was going home, she wasn’t going to stop on the side of the road, they could just follow her. From the car rego they’d know where she lived anyway

Cops were really good actually, gave her a few options, one of which involved having to do a driving test to keep her licence.
Typical stubborn Scot, she refused.
Anyway, at first she claimed it was her choice to stop driving, but then as dementia took further hold somehow it was either my sister or myself who had taken her licence off her.

At the end of the day, the dignity of the older person is far secondary to the safety of other road users . . .

 

[Farmer Roy]

They won't give up driving, it makes a joke that a 84 year old who needs 2 sticks to walk can renew their license without any form of medical, just any eye test and unfortunately his eyesight is fantastic for someone of his age ! It's taken us 5 years to get him to stop driving the forklift, he stopped driving that when he simply couldn't climb into it anymore. It is a very difficult subject and I could tell you loads of story's about near misses !

I have a friend who is in her late 50’s.
She has MS & has been progressively going down hill. Like any of these sort of diseases, there are good days & bad days.
She generally needs 2 sticks to walk. She had to pass a driving test a while ago, for medical reasons. Part of that also involved proving she could get into & out of her car without assistance.

 

[Farmer Roy]

My great uncle, was still driving in his 80’s but everyone was getting worried about him. His son in law talked his doctor into taking his licence off him ( this was in the 1970’s ) because the old fella was too stubborn to give up
It was the right thing to do ( not that he agreed with that )

my father had alzheimers in his early 60’s. We had his licence taken off him.

an aunt of mine, who stilled lived on her own independently till she died ( at home in her sleep ) at 89, voluntarily handed in her licence at 85 because she didn’t feel safe anymore & she didn’t really need to drive anyway.

an elderly cousin of mine is still driving at 89, but she doesn’t leave town & always gets a lift with others if she can.
Mind you, she did hand in her truck ( HGV ) licence when she turned 75. Figured she didn’t need it anymore

a farming neighbour, who I lease land off, is in the later stages of Parkinson’s Disease. When it started to affect him badly, he sold the farm he lived on & moved into town. He still drove out here regularly, or to visit his sister in Tamworth.
Some days, he’d be sitting in his ute out here ( because he couldn’t get out of it ) and you’d be talking to him & he wouldn’t be able to hold his head, it would just floo down on his shoulders. I did think, maybe he shouldn’t really be driving anymore? He rolled his Hilux on a gravel road one day, but apparently his “tyres” were the problem. It wasn’t until he drove his car through the back wall ( brick ) of his garage in town, that he decided it was probably time to hand in his licence . . .

my point is, some people are self aware enough of their own abilities that they decide the time is right, others need that decision made for them.
As hard as it can be at times, it needs to be done