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soul2share -> RE: SHOCK VIDEO: Woman, 84, Drives Wrong-Way On Packed I-95... (10/29/2010 5:46:13 PM)
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Actually, I think you'll find more and more people agreeing with you, myself one of them....having lived in two snowbird/elderly driver states, I know firsthand how they are a very real danger on the roadways. They are oblivious to their surroundings like this lady was, or they are driving vehicles too big for them.....I've been behind cars that you couldn't even see the driver in it.....so you can't tell me they can see out of it!
Their reaction speed is greatly reduced, their eyesight poor....yeah, I know, flame on, but it's a simple fact. We've all seen it in our driving around every day! I was stopped at a red light once, and watched the elderly woman driver chatting to her friend next to her just saaaaaaaiiiiiiillll right on through the red light.....of a very big intersection in Mesa. Fortunately, the drivers who actually had the right of way hadn't yet started through the intersection, so she made it through okay. I caught up with her at the next red light, and she was STILL just yammering away to her friend.....who apparently didn't see the red light she ran either.
Elderly drivers should be tested every year.....a full road test, not just "look into this and tell me what you see". I know it's a question of freedom for them to have access to a car, but when they become a hazard, and refuse to see it themselves, then someone needs to step in and draw the line.
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