Well there you go. I don't want my mum to have another crash and I also don't want her to get someone else killed because she can't drive very good anymore.

If you go a bit faster than 20 km per hour she tells you not to drive too fast (even on roads where you are allowed faster). I keep telling her that if I'm going slower the drivers behind me will get irritated and want to overtake me and that that could cause accidents.

If you sweep into a parking space she goes "ohoh" as if I'm going to drive into another car. Her car is only small, I drive an estate so parking her car is hardly a problem.

She will tell me that there is a car coming and I should slow down, and starts bracing herself, as if I haven't already seen it coming down the road long before she has.

She is a bag of nerves now, even gets palpitations when we just drive around in her little village, while in the past she always felt safe when I drove her, even to Italy with a big tent trailer behind the car. She would not be able to cope with that anymore.

I do feel sorry for her, but at the end of the day she has to be realistic. She can still walk to the shopping centre which is nearby and she now has her private chauffeur living next door. And he does it with love for her. What more can she ask for.