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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Older driver does not mean age caused this awful accident.  And even if it somehow contributed, so many accidents are caused by young or professional drivers or inattentive drivers or fatigued drivers or drivers going out in bad weather.  By your reasoning, no one should have a driver’s license.

“from 2014-2015. Drivers ages 16-17 continue to have the highest rates of crash involvement, injuries to themselves and others and deaths of others in crashes in which they are involved. Drivers age 80 and older have the highest rates of driver deaths. Drivers ages 60-69 were the safest drivers by most measures examined.”  https://aaafoundation.org/rates-motor-vehicle-crashes-injuries-deaths-relation-driver-age-united-states-2014-2015/[/quote]

Agree. This entire thread is nothing more than a platform for blatant bigots (ageists) to vent their intolerance for all human beings who happen to get older. The statistics in the AAA Foundation research bears acknowledgement, rather than knee-jerk reactions that all people past a certain age are incompetent and demented.

We all know of individuals who are horrible drivers. Many of us know of someone who was killed in a vehicle - by drunk drivers (all ages), by road rage (all ages), by distracted drivers (all ages) and in some very rare instances, by vehicle mechanical issues. Most of the time when I need to sound my horn it is due to someone who is texting and is drifting into my lane.

I personally have had friends killed by drunk drivers, inexperienced drivers, and distracted (phone/text) drivers.  One was killed by an 18 year old girl who was simply unskilled enough to avoid the collision. Another was a mother AND her two children, all killed by a road-rage fueled young man. Should we test all young men until their testosterone gets to a low level?  [/quote]

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