Sheila Thomson first took to the roads in the early 1930s in a Galloway saloon that would be a museum piece today. The remarkable centenarian, from Broughty Ferry near Dundee, enjoyed more than 70 years of trouble-free motoring until a slight prang with a parked car a couple of months ago.
She said: "I had been at church and the street is very narrow there. A man was loading things into his car but was doing it with the door open on the road side and I came along and hit it. "It was my fault. But what a trouble out of nothing he made of it!" "It ruined my no-claims bonus. I'd never claimed for anything in 70 years of driving," she added.
Mrs Thomson, who turned 105 last month, still drives her current car, a Peugeot 106, almost every day. She said: "As long as I have my own wee car, I am my own person. I can get in it and go about and do what I want." She has never taken the driving test - because it was not introduced until 1935.
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