Report neighbour or leave him alone?

Report him. You'll never forgive yourself if he kills someone.

Well, isn’t it lucky you don’t get to make the rules then. One of my kids has inherited my parking prowess and I’m guessing they’ll also go for 50+ years of driving without incident. The only person you are hurting is yourself, and any passengers who have their lives ticking down enduring the ordeal.

We have on street parking. The space outside my house (which people generally "kindly" leave for me) is on a bend. Normally takes me a couple of goes because it's such an awkward space.

I'm good at actual driving though.

You can ring the dvla, we had to a few years ago . They are really helpful, he wouldn't know it came from you

Do you know is family at all? I took my mother’s car keys off her after (what felt like) a near death experience.

@HoppingPavlovaWith respect, you really shouldn’t be driving… You never should’ve been! Just because you’ve survived 50 years doesn’t make it ok, you’re going to kill someone eventually if you’re bad enough that it takes 10/15 mins to reverse park, my god! Driving requires you to be in much, much better control of your vehicle than that! You need to be in tune with every single inch of it!

Well there's been a radical change then.
I'd like to believe you I don't find it easy.
They need to test more than vision too.

Nah they’re very hot on it now. I won’t say how I know, but a letter arrives within a week, demanding the book a DVLA-approved vision test specifically for driving at your local Specsavers

Pp have given opinions on reporting/not reporting re the man's driving.
So I'll just add that if any police spot the broken back light on his car, he might be pulled over for that.

A flat battery would have solved the problem at least temporarily😂
Does he have family you can talk to? If not the DVLA is probably your best bet, but the bar to be considered okay is shockingly low so don’t hold out too much hope!

I’m terrible at doing a few parking manoeuvres like that. Not long passed and learned with cameras and sensors so when I got my cheap car it was very different that I just park a way that’s more comfortable to me. At my last address I had to parella park and I think if what you are seeing is his everyday park we all do, even a driver who’s not great at those manoeuvres, tends to be able to do the parking where they live.
It does actually show the severity if he’s not handling a parking space he regularly parks in. Sure when you drive and park somewhere new it can take a while but your home base should be without thinking really.

It also would’ve been a different outcome if whoever was responsible for the child didn’t let them run in the road!

So this is chicken or egg situation.

I did it .. our neighbour was dangerous. His eyesight had deteriorated to a point where he just couldn’t see properly.

Licence was taken, which I have never felt guilty about.

Report him to DVLA ... better than killing a child.

I would report. If a medical assessment says he is fine, he will be allowed to carry on.

There are specific issues around physical and cognitive decline that can make life long drivers unsafe at the wheel, but unable to face up to it. At that point, someone does need to step in and take some responsibility. That could be a neighbour who sees what's going on, or a family member. It's hard, but not as hard as waiting until they are in a serious accident.

So actually she couldn’t be talking about you then. 🤔

Thank you - exactly this.

Nothing to do with the staff. He was walking in with his mum and suddenly bolted. Kids do that.

If you can't do an emergency stop in a situation like that, you shouldn't be driving.

That poster didn’t say they got out of the nursery - it could have been they ran off from a parent at drop off time.

Even if the staff were negligent, some culpability has to be on a driver who can’t tell the difference between a brake pedal and the accelerator, and who the poster said it came out after that he should not have been driving. If it had been someone fully competent who hit the brake correctly, it sounds like it would have been a different outcome.

But too many people like to make excuses for incompetent drivers, particularly for elderly drivers who they see it as being their last lifeline to being able to get out and about. The roads are very different these days to when they started driving - add into that a decline in eyesight, cognitive abilities deteriorating, physically slower at reacting and it’s a recipe for disaster.

I hope to god I have the sense to give up my car keys if/when i get to that stage - or that someone takes them off me if I don’t recognise it myself.

Report him. Don’t leave it till he injured or kills somebody

That's an interesting example to use. Nursery staff outrageously negligent but blame the old chap who "panicked".

Yes, report. You're doing it for his safety as well as others.

At the nursery our kids went to, there was a ghastly accident with a toddler who ran into the road and an elderly driver panicked and hit the accelerator instead of the brakes.

It came out later that due to his age / physical decline he never should have still been driving. Nothing can bring that little boy back.

Bottom line, if someone is not fit to drive then they have to be stopped. The end.

Yes, I would. Ideally before he injures someone. DVLA will require he has a medical assessment and if he passes he will still be allowed to drive and you will have to accept you car may be at risk, if he doesn’t then the situation is resolved.

Feels awful to write but maybe it’s best to report him. So difficult because obviously it would be awful to restrict him but equally not right to have him posing a danger to cyclists or children.