78 here and almost caused a VERY BAD wreck yesterday afternoon while entering a four-lane. Really has me wondering what I’m going to do if I give up driving. I’ve got excuses for why it happened, but the fact is it was MY fault. Thank God the other fellow was paying attention and had good reflexes and skills!
Stay tuned.
Yes, various problems as we age. Am 61—last
year glaucoma caused my left eye to fill
with blood but fortunately site was restored after an operation.
My husband turns 85 this year and has stopped driving in traffic but does drive on country roads in the neighborhood. He let me put a nice GPS tracker on his truck so that if he has trouble, I can find him. If he needs to go to town or to a large city, I drive.
Same age here and same concerns. No close calls but not driving all that much either due to night vision problems. Sucks getting old!
We need honesty like this in the Senate - you are still a little young for that job, but I think you would be an asset. :)
I’m 78 and recognize that my driving skills are not what they used to be. I no longer drive at night, nor do I drive on freeways or unfamiliar roads.
We mostly all make terrible mistakes in life that “could have been” bad. Maybe one of the “excuses” really was the reason it almost happened? Don’t give up yet. You’ve had literally,hundreds of 1000s of cases where you did the right thing, and we know that we can’t be 200% perfect all the time. You have to allow yourself the “right” to mess up once in awhile.
If it keeps happening, then I’d say self evaluate at that time, but an incident once in a great while shouldn’t be cause to give up yet. Conditions could have been jusy right (,ie other car was in blind spot- a person rips through a red light because they were distracted, or pull out in front of a other car thinkingmthey had enough time or such) that it hzppend? I think we’ve mostly all had moments like that.