How do you tell your Dad he shouldnt drive anymore

That is a really tough one . I don't know how you could bring this up without really hurting his feelings , but like you said if he is a danger on the road he is a danger not only to himself but to everyone else on the road . A suggestion maybe would be to see if you could talk to his family doctor and have them say something to him , maybe it wouldn't be so hard if it came from someone like that and then you could be the one he could come talk to when he needed someone to talk to . Best of luck as this would be a very hard thing to do to the one you love and want to keep safe but don't want to hurt .

Sometimes you just have tyo be honest with them, because if not they are going to cause accidents. His wife might not want to hear about it because as we get older, we start to lose freedoms. Driving is a very important freedom to the older generation, and to take it away, is like taking candy away from a child. We all hate to do it, but sometimes it needs to be done.

I feel that this must be quite a common thing and a lot of people are 'bashing' the over 70's, government agencies too. I am 74 and been driving since my 17th birthday legal but since I was 12 illegal. I used to go out in my step-brothers truck in the 40's and he used to let me drive it home back to the yard. I feel that I can still drive safely and my reaction time is as good as ever but I have been driving trucks, coaches and cranes all my working life until I had a heart attack at 59. In 57 years of driving I never had an accident! They took my truck licence away for my heart problem but let me keep my car and motorbike brief. (Yes I still ride a bike occasionally too!) My son, a police driving instructor (who I taught to drive), says as long as I can reverse our trailer into the garage car as well, he can see no reason why I should not continue to drive. My reaction time is as good as his also, we have tried it! So I think that as long as your partners father has not had an accident to prove he is incompetent I feel that he should not have his licence taken away unless it is by someone who has the necessary qualifications to say he is unsafe. You should drive alongside some of the characters I've sat with and they were only around 20 to 30 years old!!