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General => Lounge => Topic started by: oldraven on October 21, 2005, 04:37:14 PM

Title: It's important to pay attention while driving
Post by: oldraven on October 21, 2005, 04:37:14 PM
Otherwise this could happen to you.

http://www.cnn.com/2005/US/10/21/elderly.driver.ap/index.html
Title: It's important to pay attention while driving
Post by: 88SptCoupe on October 21, 2005, 04:42:52 PM
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Parker was not likely to face charges because he did not appear to know what happened or where he was, said Bruce Bartlett, chief assistant in the Pinellas-Pasco County State Attorney's Office.


im all for letting old people drive but...the guy he hit doesnt have a leg anymore....
Title: It's important to pay attention while driving
Post by: oldraven on October 21, 2005, 05:09:44 PM
Quote from: 88SptCoupe
im all for letting old people drive but...the guy he hit doesnt have a leg anymore....


Or a pulse. :disappoin
Title: It's important to pay attention while driving
Post by: 5.0willgo on October 21, 2005, 05:23:57 PM
I'm against letting the elderly continue to drive. My grandmother is 79 and on one of her recent outings, she decided to merge before the curb median ended. She ended up cutting someone off almost causing an accident. Not to mention that now her car drives as crooked as a dogs hind leg. Corollas don't like jumping over medians.

As much as I love to drive and I know I'll fight it when I'm old but I hope my family does everything possible to keep me off the road. The last thing I want to is injure another person or myself.

I really think it would be a great idea to have to retake your drivers test when you hit a certain age. Granted some elderly can maneuver fine but others can't. Remember that low milage old lady driven T-Bird on ebay? It was beat up all around.
Title: It's important to pay attention while driving
Post by: V8Demon on October 22, 2005, 06:02:22 AM
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really think it would be a great idea to have to retake your drivers test when you hit a certain age
:iagree:

http://www.vesid.nysed.gov/driver/sdriver.htm
http://www.retech2000.com/driver_rehabilitation_new_york.html

police in NYS can fill out a form that requires a driver be re-evalUATED.  I filled one out for an elderly lady once when she told me that this was her SECOND accident of the DAY.
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