Periodic Driver Retests.

[Grahamm]

there can be many reasons for an accident other than competency btw !!

Yes, there's people driving who can barely see beyond the bonnet and haven't had an eye test in the last 20 years. There's people who have no idea of the rules of the road and think that two wheels should give way to four wheels. Then there's the ones who simply don't care about other's right of way or the ones who are driving vehicles which are beyond their ability to deal with. Of course there's the mobile phone users, the texters, the drunks, the drug users, the ones with anger management issues...

... still, with 30 million people on the roads, you're bound to have accidents, so why bother trying to reduce that number...??