A man has turned 100 and is still driving after 87 years - and says road manners and potholes are the worst they have ever been.<br /><br />Centenarian Eric Dixon still motors around in his Kia Picanto - and has no intention of stopping.<br /><br />Eric has been driving for 87 years - getting his first job behind the wheel of a three-tonne lorry after leaving school aged just 13.<br /><br />Since then he has driven every vehicle - from motorcycles to double-decker buses.<br /><br />Asked how the roads have changed over the decades, Eric, from Canterbury, says the roads are worse than ever.<br /><br />He said: “There was always plenty of courtesy and it was one thing that was drilled into me when I was learning to drive.<br /><br />“There are no manners today. Canterbury has got busier and it will get worse.<br /><br />“Potholes are the worst they have ever been.”<br /><br />According to surveys, the average age at which people give up driving is 75.<br /><br />But Eric, who passed his driving test aged on his 17th birthday, insists there is nothing he did in his 60s which he can’t do now.<br /><br />As well as still getting out on the roads, the 100-year-old still takes good care of his immaculate garden, cleans his windows and even climbs up to clear his gutters.<br /><br />He said people "worry about my age rather than what I can do."<br /><br />He was watching ITV’s 100-Year-Old Driving School, which followed motorists in their 90s and older undergoing an assessment overseen by examiners.<br /><br />He said “I was damn certain I was better than they are,” he says.<br /><br />“But then I wondered if it was me thinking I was better than I am.<br /><br />“Some of them should not be driving and it was them who made me think seriously about myself.”<br /><br />He booked himself in for a government-approved test in 2017 to find out for sure that he was fine to still be on the roads.<br /><br />The assessment included a nurse carrying out physical checks and asking Eric questions about his health.<br /><br />He says the driving test was the toughest he had taken as “it included so much more” than others.<br /><br />But he still got “10 out of 10”.<br /><br />Eric says he could drive from Kent to any capital of Europe without a map or signposts - because he worked for a car company for 37 years after leaving the army.<br /><br />The only time Eric had points on his licence was in the 1940s when he says he parked on zig-zag road lines in London.<br /><br />He retired from the East Kent Road Car Company in 1984, and now lives a happy life with partner Margaret, who lives next door.<br /><br />But despite quitting work, Eric has continued to lead a life on the roads.<br /><br />In the autumn last year, he bought his current car, a Kia Picanto, having previously driven a Skoda.<br /><br />Even aged 100 he shows no sign of slowing down and his passion for driving remains just as strong.<br /><br />He still has a remarkable bill of health - with no need for carers or walking aids.<br /><br />He said: "I am not on any medication.<br /><br />"I lived on bags of fruit and vegetables from a boy during the war.<br /><br />"You had to or you would go hungry."
