Dangerous elderly driver

[Gardengnomefriend]

Not sure what to do next. My neighbour is an older man, somewhere in his 70's
His driving is beyond scary. We live on a main road where there's fast moving traffic and lorries and double decker buses up and down all day. They pull out without looking, I've seen near misses with cyclists and theres a zebra crossing 200 yards from my house, they fly through it without looking and have done so with people still walking across. They are in obvious pain when they walk, they physically grunt when using their stairs and it takes 10 minutes to park in their disabled parking bay, often leaving it half in and half out of the bay because they just can't park it. They are either driving at a very very slow pace or way to fast for the built up area we live. In short they are an accident waiting to happen and with two local schools very close I dread to think what could happen.
I have made a report to DVLA and nothing has been done as they are still driving, I put kff making that report as I feel bad but they truly are dangerous on the road. Do I make another report to DVLA?

Phone 101, explain you've reported to DVLA already. Is it taxed/mot/insured?

Report to DVLA again.

that he is still driving doesn't necessarily mean the DVLA hasn't done anything (it may mean that he's just decided to carry on anyway).

(I wish you’d say “he” instead of “they” - sounded like you were talking about multiple people initially)

YANBU - report again. Maybe try and get some video evidence.

Or it meant OP wasn't identifying whether they were male or female. Not that it matters for the purposes of their post.

@DanielGault op says elderly man at the start of her post

@DanielGault she identifies him as male 3 times in the first three sentences then switches to they.
I assumed it was multiple people driving.

I was replying to someone else! They were moaning about he/they etc.

Do you have a local community police officer? They’re usually very helpful and they might be happy to keep an eye out and have a word with the driver or refer it themselves to the DVLA

Have you never heard of a singular person being g referred to as they? It is gramatically correct.

Yeah I found that confusing too. Is it one person or more?

I assumed the weird use of pronouns must be due to the elderly male driver identifying as something else like, say younger and competent.

Only if you don't know the person's sex. We do, the OP does, it is noted in the fiest post - "man", "his".

I wonder what the 'young and competent' pronoun is? I need some of that 😂

That’s not the case. It is used all the time when you know the sex.

As a former English teacher it sends me demented. It is really unclear and often means sentances make no sense. Whilst language does change over time, and I don't expect it to stay still, language does not usually evolve to make less sense. Most people would find it often obscures meaning and in that sense it can't be said to be gramatically correct can it? As here, poeple are confused when reading, so how can it be gramatically correct? Strange to assert that it is correct when you can see this playing out in real time in the comments.

😂👏🏻

Well, googling tells me it seems it has been in usage in writing since 1375! So nothing new about it.

From what you describe OP you could reasonably question if the man's eyesight is still good enough for driving. So calling 101 with details seems reasonable to me.

Let your MP know how useless the DVLA are, assuming that you have an MP who is not a sex pest/corrupt/not caring as leaving at the election.

I think that I read somewhere that the DVLA has a backlog, before your neighbour causes a serious accident, or even a fatality you should report to the Police on their non emergency number 101.
If the Police do visit your neighbour, they may raise a safeguarding concern with the relevant agencies and they sometimes can carry out a rudimentary eye test.

Thanks for all the helpful advice! I think I will give 101 a call and explain it to them. And thanks to those who understood that I was indeed talking about a singular male human being, much appreciated!

This is a really common problem unfortunately due to self certification on medical fitness to drive. You can call the DVLA but they will probably only write to him asking him if he wants to report any medical conditions that may affect his driving. He may reply that he does not.
Gp can do a medical for fitness to drive on request and contact DVLA with their findings. This can only be initiated by the patient themselves.
I would contact the police every time you witness a specific incident of dangerous driving / near miss to report him.

Not a chance that you are a former English teacher! 😂 How many mistakes?!

@ChristinaXYZ a former English teacher who is unable to spell 'grammatically' two times in a post. Yeah right...

i agree, it wasn’t clear who ‘they’ were.