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A time-bomb at the wheel
Aug 24 2008 by Phil Cullen, Sunday Sun
IN relation to your story about the ADHD driver . . . at the risk of sounding like Victor Meldrew . . . “I don’t BELIEVE it!”
How this lad was even allowed to even start driving with six penalty points on the licence before it was issued is beyond me, but to even consider returning a licence to someone who openly admits that “I miss things like traffic signals and lights and stuff. I get that practically every time I’m in the car” is absolutely irresponsible. And perhaps, even worse, he says: “I was furious, so I started driving straight towards him, I don’t really understand how it was careless”.
This tells me that, the moment he gets back behind the wheel, he would be like a time-bomb waiting to go off, if something happens to upset him.
What should we do? Let him loose to drive off and collide with, and perhaps kill, another innocent driver who CAN see the traffic signals and lights? He should be banned permanently for the sake of other road users.
The authorities are pandering to him because they are terrified of being accused of unfair treatment because of his illness.
Granted, he may suffer from a genuine illness . . . but why should OUR lives be put in danger because of it? This is another case of political correctness gone mad! What will the DVLA do next? Issue a driving licence to Stevie Wonder, perhaps? — KENRICHLAN, by email.
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