Had to report my father to the DMV due to his dementia. His wife was putting him in the car and telling him where to turn etc. So unsafe. She refused to get her eyes fixed in order to get her license back. It was a tragedy in waiting. I had thoughts of them putting someone in a wheelchair or killing a kid on a bike.
Reporting him was my only option. It cost me the remainder of his life as he hated me after that and his wife kept that hatred stoked. So any relationship was gone. Too stressful on him and too hard on me. I’m told he continued to drive but they had moved to a neighboring state. I guess he drove up until he was finally hospitalized where he spent the final few months of his life.
“Reporting him was my only option“
Yup. Tough decision but the right one.
“Had to report my father to the DMV due to his dementia. His wife was putting him in the car and telling him where to turn etc. So unsafe”
That was my wife and me personally. Except I let her drive my eyes were so bad. She was actually a very safe driver, stopped at all signs, looked both ways, did not speed or drive too slowly etc. Problem was she could not remember where we were going so I would have to tell her turn left at the next intersection, etc. We would going to a Walmart she had been to a thousand plus times and she could not remember the way and this was less than a five mile trip.
I am not sure if I will renew my DL when the time comes.
This is so sad to read.