e petition to allow police to suspend the licence of dangerous drivers after death of a 16 year old girl

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Her mother needs signatures for her e petition (Cassies law) after an elderly driver allegedly mounted the pavement twice and finally crushed her to death.

The police have no powers to suspend licences, even when they feel the driver is dangerous. Only the DVLA can do this. It is not against elderly drivers, just those who are unfit to drive.

e-petitions dir.gov.uk/cassies law

Does it? I don't know the guidelines.

I do think sentencing around dangerous driving / driving offences is bizarre, especially when you hear of people who are already banned being caught driving dangerously and getting another ban.

" .. an elderly driver allegedly mounted the pavement twice .."

".. even when they feel the driver is dangerous .."

Not a very good basis for removing someone's freedom is it?

In general I'm not sure that giving police the powers to act as judge and jury is the way forward.

Pendeen. The driver has been arrested, you have to put allegedly about anything that has not gone to court.

In this case a policeman spent 2 hours trying to persuade an 87 yo man who had been stopped for a driving offence and failed the number plate eyesight test, to voluntarily surrender his licence until the DVLA could investigate.

Removing someones freedom who is unfit to drive versus killing an innocent child.....in my book there is no contest.

I would put links in and a youtube link of the driver driving the entire car onto the pavement scattering pedestrians, but MN deleted the thread because, presumably, you cant supply links and I didnt put allegedly. I wish MN would at least explain why threads are deleted so they can be rephrased. This is a very serious issue, it seems you can kill people with several tons of metal and get away with a slap on the wrist.

My SFIL has Alzheimer's and is very confused. He has the reaction times of a snail on Mogadon. He has a cataract in one eye. His Alzheimer's makes him aggressive and unreasonable.

We know he is unfit to drive. He is terrifying behind a wheel. He refuses to give up his licence and we've been told there's nothing we can do to stop him. He's an accident waiting to happen.

Tanith. omg for you and the other road users in your SFILs vicinity.

I have reposted on AIBU as I have had mainly such a negative response here. Why?