Posted on 06/04/2010 10:45:49 AM PDT by nickcarraway
A 91-year-old man pleaded no contest to a traffic violation and was sentenced to a year of unsupervised probation for an accident in December of 2007 that killed a Savannah woman and seriously injured her husband.
Daniel Thomas Fogarty entered the plea on Thursday for the accident that killed 48-year-old Nichola Coe. The accident happened as Coe and her husband, 52-year-old Daniel Coe, were rushing to help a 17-year-old driver who had wrecked his car.
Fogarty's $350 fine was suspended. As a condition of probation Fogarty is not to drive after dark, in bad weather or outside of Chatham County.
Nichola Coe, chief financial officer for the Historic Savannah Foundation, died January 9, 2008, at Memorial University Medical Center in Savannah.
Reminds me of the 88 year old guy that jumped a curb in CA and ran over several folks, one of whom was pregnant.
This is going to get bigger and bigger as the baby boomers age. Look at Florida where seniors are more dangerous drivers as a group than teenagers. The big difference, of course, is that you can punish a teenager. They really aren’t equipped to handle 91-year old murderers.
I stood in line at motor vehicle one-time behind an elderly man who couldnt pass the eye exam, the counter girl, who thought it was cute, just kept letting him guess at the letters which he eventually guessed. He was then clear again to drive.
We can debate the fairness of it, but the fact is virtually no judge in the world is going to send a 91 year old to prison, even for something anybody else would do hard time for. My experience with the courts is that if you are over 80, the worst that will happen is home confinement.
Here in NJ they recently passed a law requiring young drivers to put a stick on their vehicles that identify their age as a knee jerk reaction to a texting driver killing someone. It’s ironic that the elderly can literally kill people behind the wheel and get a slap on the wrist.
sticker...whoops
That’s very true, although judges will sometimes force old folks into shady acres as an alternative to prison.
I’m a little disturbed that the driver was allowed to keep his license and only not drive after dark or in foul weather. At the very least he has no business driving again.
Any and every accident involving elderly people gets big media coverage. I wonder how elderly statistics compare to other age groups.
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