{"id":40262,"date":"2025-10-17T19:42:38","date_gmt":"2025-10-17T17:42:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/accidents\/driving-and-ageing-in-south-africa-5-things-to-check-before-hitting-the-road\/"},"modified":"2025-10-17T19:42:38","modified_gmt":"2025-10-17T17:42:38","slug":"driving-and-ageing-in-south-africa-5-things-to-check-before-hitting-the-road","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/accidents\/driving-and-ageing-in-south-africa-5-things-to-check-before-hitting-the-road\/","title":{"rendered":"Driving and ageing in South Africa: 5 things to check before hitting the road"},"content":{"rendered":"

There’s no legal “cut-off” age for driving in South Africa. It is however important to consider one’s health, awareness and honest self-assessment. Licences must be renewed every five years (with an eye test included in your reassessment), and decisions about driving should be based on ability, not age alone.<\/p>\n

Mike Pashut, Founder and CEO of ChangeCars recognises that: “Mobility is independence. Our goal as families and communities should be to help older drivers stay safe for as long as possible and to spot the moment when different transport choices are the wiser option.”<\/p>\n

South Africa has more than three million people aged 65+, so this conversation touches many households. As we age, vision and reaction times change. By around 60, most of us need substantially more light to see as well as we did at 20. <\/p>\n

According Pashut, here are five things to consider before an older person takes to the road:<\/p>\n

1. Health and vision first (annually,…<\/p>\n

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There’s no legal “cut-off” age for driving in South Africa. It is however important to consider one’s health, awareness and honest self-assessment. Licences must be renewed every five years (with an eye test included in your reassessment), and decisions about driving should be based on ability, not age alone. Mike Pashut, Founder and CEO of […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":40263,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.arrivealive.co.za\/\/ckfinder\/userfiles\/images\/ChangeCars%20elderly%20drivers.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2149],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-40262","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-accidents"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.arrivealive.co.za\/\/ckfinder\/userfiles\/images\/ChangeCars%20elderly%20drivers.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40262","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=40262"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40262\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/40263"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40262"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40262"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40262"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}