NO mention of age- I'll bet its a senior citizen who was LONG past the time when someone should have taken her keys away.
This happens more and more- they get 'confused'. They're confused when they get behind the wheel, or they're practically blind, or deaf, have motor skills problems and need walkers just to stay upright. But GolDarnit!, they can still control a couple of tons of machinery at 55mph- NOT!
Evidently this woman died, which is a shame. But too many do this and retain their licenses. If you can maintain a car and pay insurance on it, you can afford to call a cab once a week to go shopping. Their PRIDE is costing lives.
This is one of my pet peeves. Barely alive geezers who refuse to stop driving and families who let them. Agin is a fact of life. If you can be too young to drive, for reasoning and reflex reasons, then you certainly can be too old.
During the evac for Hurricane Ivan last year we watched in horror as a woman in the car next to us( traffic was creeping, thank God) drove with her eyes CLOSED and some kind of tremors-one handed. Tourettes, some kind of palsy- I don't know, but she never stopped jerking and shaking. I wouldn't have wanted to be near her when she was doing the speed limit.