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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]A statement by the driver: “I lost control, and it was out of my control,” he said, saying he was “very, very sorry.”

According to WTOP: 
The driver, who said he was 82, has not been charged.[/quote]

Yet. Hasn't been charged yet. At the very least he failed to exercise due care and attention and failed to control his speed to avoid an accident (i.e. didn't stop in order to not leave the roadway).

My late grandfather was still driving around at 93. The problem with all these laws is they don't require the elderly driver to affirmatively prove they're still competent to operate a vehicle. It's like as long as they're not actively in a memory care unit, the doctor won't do anything because nobody wants to upset Gramps and do the hard job of taking the keys away. Maybe if the doctor had to actually sign a form every year that put themselves on the line to say, "Yes, Mr. Jones is safe and able to operate a vehicle" instead of making it dependent on a concern being reported first and then more info being sought, there would be less of this. Those frequent Silver Alerts, where we're all supposed to be on the lookout for a confused elderly person operating a vehicle and getting lost somewhere? Those shouldn't be needed if driving laws were worth anything.[/quote]

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