This is in reference to the new bill they want to pass that will make it mandatory for drivers over 85 to take a road test to renew their license. Why should they be the only ones? Personally, I think anyone who has been driving for at least five years should take a road test and it should be REPEATED every five years. And I’ll bet a lot of people wouldn’t pass those tests, either.
As someone who works in the auto insurance industry, I see accidents reported on a daily basis (I’m the one who has to take the brunt of those calls). Most of the calls I take are from people either my own age (late 30’s) to middle age. Very rarely do I ever get a call from someone over age 65. So, either these people are getting into a ton of accidents and just don’t want to report them, or they aren’t getting into as many accidents as we may believe.
I’m not siding with the elders. I don’t agree it’s right for some 80-something driver to run over a poor innocent child. However, I don’t agree it’s right for a parent to back over their own child in their driveway either (two very recent incidents occurred but didn’t get HALF the press coverage the one did regarding the 80-something year old driver).
What’s good for one driver, should be good for ALL drivers. When a 30-year-old driver does not know what the word “yield” means, it’s time to take a driving test again (that is a true story, btw. A driver failed to yield to oncoming traffic; naturally, he drove forward when he shouldn’t have, colliding with an oncoming car; when he was asked by the cops why he did not yield, his reply was “what does it mean to ‘yield’?”. I wish I were kidding, but I’m not).
As for the parents running over their children, I can only wonder why the child was there in the first place.
We are all human beings. We all forget things after a while. Not everyone can remember every rule and regulation of the road. So let’s ALL get retested, for safety sake!
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