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Having read this article, and noticing it is indeed in Florida, I wanted to get a debate going on perhaps a maximum age limit on having/obtaining a drivers license and/or legally driving past age X.
Here's the article:
http://www.cnn.com/2005/US/10/21/elderly.driver.ap/index.html
I think there should be a legal maximum age limit for such. The statistics are horrifying if you sit to look at them. (I will post them here soon, as I am gathering them as we speak) I also know quite a few of you are getting up there in age. (haha)
Perhaps an age limit of 75. That seems a nice number in which to ensure the safety of buildings, sidewalks, pedestrians and the driver, of course. Let's see what you all think.
Here's the article:
http://www.cnn.com/2005/US/10/21/elderly.driver.ap/index.html
From CNN.com
ST. PETERSBURG, Florida (AP) -- A 93-year-old driver apparently suffering from dementia fatally struck a pedestrian and drove for three miles with the man's body through his windshield, police said.
Ralph Parker was stopped after he drove through a tollbooth on the Sunshine Skyway, Traffic Homicide Investigator Michael Jockers said. The toll taker called police, he said.
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.
"He may have somewhere in his mind have realized it was a crash, but immediately forgot about it," Jockers said.
The victim's leg was severed in the Wednesday night crash, police said. The man, whose name was not released, was 52.
Parker had renewed his license in 2003.
"That was the one thing he had, to get in his car and just drive for the sheer enjoyment of driving," Jockers said. Parker lived alone after his wife died in 1998, authorities said.
I think there should be a legal maximum age limit for such. The statistics are horrifying if you sit to look at them. (I will post them here soon, as I am gathering them as we speak) I also know quite a few of you are getting up there in age. (haha)
Perhaps an age limit of 75. That seems a nice number in which to ensure the safety of buildings, sidewalks, pedestrians and the driver, of course. Let's see what you all think.