We got to do something about these old people driving Test them once a year or every 6 months this is crazy
You take a test when you’re 17 or so in Massachusetts and don’t need to be tested after that. There has been a proposal to require those over 85 to take another test.
As the talk shows have pointed out, the elderly vote and in huge numbers. Thus the legislature is loath to enact such laws...
Dennis Miller on his “White Album”, 1988: “I think you shouldn’t be allowed to drive if you’re old enough to
remember when there weren’t any cars.”
So you do think that only “old” people hit people in cross walks? What is old?
I am not saying there should not be more testing, I think its interesting that when an “old” person has an accident it becomes a national issue, when there are dozens of accidents everyday that barely get local coverage.
Agreed.
I am a nurse, and I deal with the elderly every day of the week. Less than 5% of the 80+ year old patients I see have their full mental and physical faculties intact.
Driving a vehicle requires both sound mental faculties and physical reaction times; both sadly lacking in the senior-citizen set.
Fortunately I don’t like to drive all that much so when its time for me to quit I will without a fight. Mostly I like to creep along the backroads anyway.
Maybe we should wait and see when there’s more details about this accident. The cops haven’t given her a ticket yet, so maybe, just maybe, it wasn’t her fault.
We got to do something about these old people driving Test them once a year or every 6 months this is crazy
I absolutely agree with you.
Looking outside my window the older neighbor across the street has almost gotten in several accidents pulling in and out of her driveway. Very close calls. She's a menace on the road should not be driving.
A couple years ago she "accidentally" rammed into a parked semi totaling her car.