Duke of Edinburgh’s Road Accident

[SirGawain]

AIBU to ask why on earth is the Duke of Edinburgh driving at the age of 97.

The older you get the more you think what the hell it doesn't matter if I died an accident I'm going to die soon anyway

Yeah, I mean, why care if you kill or maim someone else in that accident? Fuck 'em.

“The older you get the more you think what the hell it doesn't matter if I died an accident I'm going to die soon anyway”

It’s true.
As soon as I hit my 60th birthday I realised I only have a third (tops) of my life left. So I have a LOT still to pack in to my life. No time to waste so it seems sensible to travel at 100mph on motorways and I certainly can’t be waiting around at junctions. Sometimes if I am turning right at a big roundabout I take a shortcut by nipping anti clockwise to the exit. I have calculated that if I do this 5 times a week for the next 5 years it will save me enough time to accomplish another bucket list goal!

Cool, huh?

Thanks for asking Bluelady, I am quite comfortable thank you, comes with a clear conscience 😇

I see it more as an unconscious weighing up of the cost benefit ratio when one is advanced in years

I am not advanced in years and I do not drive at all
I avoid cars like the plague, cars equal carnage in my book

Oh dear, the staff seem to be getting themselves in a bit of bother now,

www.express.co.uk/news/royal/1076037/royal-news-gamekeeper-sandringham-beat-man-peasant-shoot

badlydrawnperson Mock, but it is true. Cars are killing machines.

And Prince Philip no longer undertakes public duties. So he is only as busy as he wants to be. Very different from many with full time jobs, kids and houses to run. They really are busy.

@badlydrawnperson a car in the wrong hands is a lethal weapon. That's why we have laws in place, age, spend, drink driving, drug driving. You can't honestly believe that no damage or harm can be caused by a badly driven car? No deaths?

From that BBC link posted earlier:

"In key locations such as high-speed junctions, high-speed roundabouts and slip roads onto motorways and dual carriageways - locations where drivers are required to look around quickly and make quick decisions - some drivers over the age of 70 struggle," says Greig.

Looks like he's not the only older driver who struggles then.

@Smotheroffive we were or are all young drivers and improve with age and experience. We then reach a peak and then we start going downhill, by 97 driving skills have seriously diminished and won't improve.

Your arguments in young drivers is ridiculous.

smother Are you working for Prince Philips PR team? You seem willing to say anything to defend him.

smother Are you working for Prince Philips PR team? You seem willing to say anything to defend him.

^^this

Like I said, i'll leave you to your speculation and stoning you're not listening to anyone else anyway

Don't be ridiculous. Saying that he is racist and misogynistic is not a stoning. It is simple accurate. If you frequently say racist and misogynistic things in public, then people notice.

Honestly most men twenty years his junior would not have survived that crash without significant injury.

Nonsense!!

I have been in a car accident where the car rolled across the other lane of traffic (luckily no one coming), into a garden of a house and landed on its roof. Not the fault of our driver. This was many years ago as I was a pre teen back then - so 30+ years ago. It wasn't a particularly big car. In the car were 2 adults , an older child and 3 toddlers - 2 in seat belts, one on the knee of a parent - this was before the times of everyone being in seatbelts and not on knees, and the 2 car seats being used were fairly basic types.

Everyone got out of that car unscathed, not a scratch. We all were unable to leave the car by the doors as they were crumpled in. But we all go out, via a back window, uninjured.

And if in a LandRover - they are built really well. They are build to protect the people inside the car!

Aragog thirty + years ago the car you were in could very well have been coach built which were far sturdier than today’s cars. More like the Duke was driving

Seriously i was not a great car. It was a wreck afterwards.
But my point really was that it is very easy to see why the DofE was able to walk away from such a crash, without significant injuries especially when you consider the type of vehicle he was in.

It wasn't a Land Rover for the eleventy billionth time.

It was a Land Rover. It was a Land Rover Freelander.
The make of the car was Land Rover.

Just like you can get other types of Land Rovers - Discovery, Range Rover, Defender, Evoque, etc.

Land Rover Freelander - also rates very highly for passenger safety.

www.euroncap.com/en/ratings-rewards/latest-safety-ratings/en/results/land-rover/freelander/15728

Bluelady

I think what you mean is that it wasn't a Range Rover (also made by Land Rover) - but that's not what I said. I said Land Rover.

Don't tell me what I mean.

Woah - okay, clam down!

You said it wasn't a Land Rover, in response (or at least following) my post.
However that is incorrect.
The car involved in the accident was a Land Rover.
It was a Land Rover Freelander.
Land Rover is the make; Freelander the model.

In previous posts on the thread people were saying the car was a Range Rover. And others were saying it wasn't. Which is the car. Hence why I assumed you meant that, and perhaps mixed them up.

But fair enough if you meant to actually say it wasn't a Land Rover. In that case - you are incorrect. the car in question is, in fact, a Land Rover.

Was he driving a Range Rover?

For the umpteenth time he was driving a FREELANDER which is not a Range Rover.