A pensioner just proved that there is not any age limit to good driving. Archie Scott is the oldest driver in Scotland passing an advanced test, at 92. The former Scottish Malts Distillers director passed his recent test some seventy-five years after his first. The Institute of Advanced Motorists has confirmed his achievement.
He admitted, while being on the Good Morning Scotland radio programme, that he’d been nervous prior to being tested. He recalled that his first test had been pretty easy. Just hitting the gears properly and keeping the car going straight had been all there was to it. The advanced test, he said was harder because of driving the rural roads and dual carriageway around Inverness.
The advanced test took about 50 minutes, which was longer than he expected. Experts say that research supports Archie Scott’s results, in that it shows older drivers to be safer than younger drivers. The latest figures suggest that while older drivers constitute about eight per cent of the driving populace, they only get into about four per cent of all injury causing accidents.
