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2005-10-21 -Short Attention Span Theater-

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Posted by tu3031 2005-10-21 08:13|| || Front Page|| [1 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 This is why they need to carefully test elderly drivers so as to weed out the dangerous ones.

Posted by Steve">Steve 2005-10-21 08:38|| 2005-10-21 08:38|| Front Page Top

#2 Look at the size of that bug which hit the windshield!

Posted by CrazyFool 2005-10-21 09:08|| 2005-10-21 09:08|| Front Page Top

#3 My dad is eagerly awaiting the day that I and my siblings come to him to take away his keys and promise to chauffeur him for the rest of his days. He hates to drive.

Posted by Seafarious">Seafarious 2005-10-21 09:11|| 2005-10-21 09:11|| Front Page Top

#4 Apparently he couldn't find a farmer's market...

Posted by Raj 2005-10-21 09:13|| 2005-10-21 09:13|| Front Page Top

#5 the dangerous ones! they're all dangerous, the rest of the general population take note and look out!

Posted by bk 2005-10-21 12:06|| 2005-10-21 12:06|| Front Page Top

#6 Book him, Danno, murder one.

Posted by Spetch Ebbasing3474 2005-10-21 12:48|| 2005-10-21 12:48|| Front Page Top

#7 The big auto insurers are all complicit in this. They don't want the pool of drivers decreased because it would cut into their profits. Most of the oldsters pay their premiums (unlike the masses of young drivers illegally going without insurance in places like New Jersey, Philly and Southern California)
Until the insurance companies stop running interference for older drivers, we'll keep sharing the road with blind, senile drivers who possess the reaction time of a frozen garden slug in defensive driving situations.

Posted by M. Murcek">M. Murcek 2005-10-21 12:57|| 2005-10-21 12:57|| Front Page Top

#8 "Although some drivers in their 80s and even 90s continue to drive safely, the odds in that age group are not good, according to NHTSA statistics. For drivers 65 and older, the crash rate per mile driven begins to increase slowly. For drivers 85 and over, NHTSA statistics show that the fatality rate per 100 million vehicle miles traveled begins to zoom upward to a rate 9 times as high as the rate for drivers between from age 25 through 69."
http://healthlink.mcw.edu/article/1031002304.html

Posted by Darrell 2005-10-21 14:00|| 2005-10-21 14:00|| Front Page Top

#9 For drivers 85 and over, NHTSA statistics show that the fatality rate per 100 million vehicle miles traveled begins to zoom upward to a rate 9 times as high as the rate for drivers between from age 25 through 69."

Wonder if it's worse than the 16-25 crowd.

Posted by Shipman 2005-10-21 18:57|| 2005-10-21 18:57|| Front Page Top

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