Elderly Driver
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Maybe 20 is the age, newbies should be? The other part of your comment is just not practical.The most dangerous age for drivers is 20. If we're really serious about cutting the accident rate, maybe nobody should have a license.
May not be practical but sooner or later it has to happen. We can't keep doing what we're doing and survive.......Maybe 20 is the age, newbies should be? The other part of your comment is just not practical.
lol.may not be practical but sooner or later it has to happen. We can't keep doing what we're doing and survive.......
My father in law faled his road test 3 X's!!!!!!!!! He is 80 soon to be 81 The Examiner told me after the last test he SHOULD NOT be driving but would NOT cinfiscate his DL!!!!!! So there he is out on the road with the MOT knowing he is a bad driver.WTF!!!!!!!!!!!
Heard on the radio this morning that 8 pedestrians in the GTA have been mowed down by motorists in the past 7 days. The latest is a 75 old man in Port Credit. The SUV driver drove away without stopping. This slaughter of pedestrians has to stop.Incredibly sad that there have been 6 traffic deaths in the GTA, and this is only the third week of 2010.
ok, so any details on this mowing down? If the pedistrian steps off the curb while yakking or texting into the path of an oncoming vehicle, well, they deserve what they get. Sorry to be so blunt but one has to take responsibility for their actions.Heard on the radio this morning that 8 pedestrians in the GTA have been mowed down by motorists in the past 7 days. The latest is a 75 old man in Port Credit. The SUV driver drove away without stopping. This slaughter of pedestrians has to stop.
I can't TELL you how many times I approach an intersection on a green, signal to make a right, slow to make the right then have a pedistrian abruptly do a 90 deg turn, step off the curb directly into my path. Don't know about you but if there is a fight between a 3000 lb 4 x 4 pickup and a person, the person loses. You'd think people would know that....
(then again, maybe it is the new "survival of the fittest".....)
I might be a speed freak at times but in the right car at the right times. I also go OUT OF MY WAY to avoid any accident, no matter WHOS fault it might be.
People are just human and make errors, being dumb-even reckless to me doesn't mean oh well who cares, not me. Even if that person is a jerk and is "asking for it" they still have people who love and need them. If you can not brake for them, think of their love ones and brake for them. Takes just a few seconds to avoid an accident and it could save somebody life.
http://www.thestar.com/news/gta/article/752506
Reid said the city could use more public education campaigns.
"Toronto is becoming a city where more and more people are walking, taking public transit and cycling, so I think we really need to remind everybody that Toronto's changing, it's becoming more crowded and you really do need to be looking out for each other."
People are just human and make errors, being dumb-even reckless to me doesn't mean oh well who cares, not me. Even if that person is a jerk and is "asking for it" they still have people who love and need them. If you can not brake for them, think of their love ones and brake for them. Takes just a few seconds to avoid an accident and it could save somebody life.
http://www.thestar.com/news/gta/article/752506
Reid said the city could use more public education campaigns.
"Toronto is becoming a city where more and more people are walking, taking public transit and cycling, so I think we really need to remind everybody that Toronto's changing, it's becoming more crowded and you really do need to be looking out for each other."
You can bet your last (tax) dollar that if it was a friend or family member of any Grit MPP, there would be a sweeping ban on elderly drivers.It's up to seniors and their doctors to decide when it's time to stop driving, not the government, Premier Dalton McGuinty said Wednesday in the wake of an accident that claimed the life of a Toronto mother.
"For some folks, it's sooner rather than later, but there does come a point in time when it is no longer safe for you to drive a car," McGuinty said.
"You have to be honest with yourself in that regard ... and so does your physician."
McGuinty's comments came a day after a mother was killed when she and her baby were hit while crossing a busy intersection by a car that allegedly ran a red light. Police said the 12-week-old boy suffered only minor injuries despite being knocked out of his stroller.
The driver was an 83-year-old woman, police said.
McGuinty said he's willing to listen to any advice his transport minister may offer, but he doesn't believe the accident is "something that calls for actions on the part of government."
"But it does call for, I think, careful consideration by our seniors and by their doctors," he added.
Ontario has the "toughest regime" in Canada for elderly drivers, said Transportation Minister Jim Bradley.
When drivers turn 80, they must pass a written test and attend a class with other drivers. If the driver has any demerit points, they must pass a road test, he said.
Drivers over the age of 70 who caused an accident are required to undergo a re-test. Any medical problems must also be reported to the ministry by law, and the driver's licence is suspended until those problems are overcome, he added.
"We get most of our complaints from senior drivers who think it's very onerous," he said.
However, there's very little driving-related activity that McGuinty hasn't touched since he took office 2003.
The Ontario Liberals have imposed sweeping regulations, from stunt driving to outlawing the use of hand-held devices like cellphones, banning smoking in vehicles with children and imposing new restrictions on young drivers.
Questions about whether senior drivers posed a bigger risk to public safety surfaced back in 2000, when a Toronto woman died after being run over and dragged for almost a kilometre under a car driven by 84-year-old Pilar Hicks.
The existing laws are absolutely usleless.
Re-tests are the way to go. Retests at 65, 70, 75 and 80, then every 2 years from 80 onward.
Waiting ntil someone has killed a person to re-test them is absurd. That's like letting a person on an airplain with a hand granade on the premise that he hasn;t done anything yet.
Doctors intervention is useless half the time. First of all, many people (especially men) hardly ever visit doctors unless they are in excruciating pain or fear for their lives.
Furthermore, unless a persons doctor also plays tennis or volleyball with the patient, or tries to punch them in the face once in a while, they have don't have a good enough idea as to their reaction time, depth/distance perception or their ability to track fast moving objects. Eye charts are no use for this either.
Re-tests are the way to go. Retests at 65, 70, 75 and 80, then every 2 years from 80 onward.
Waiting ntil someone has killed a person to re-test them is absurd. That's like letting a person on an airplain with a hand granade on the premise that he hasn;t done anything yet.
Doctors intervention is useless half the time. First of all, many people (especially men) hardly ever visit doctors unless they are in excruciating pain or fear for their lives.
Furthermore, unless a persons doctor also plays tennis or volleyball with the patient, or tries to punch them in the face once in a while, they have don't have a good enough idea as to their reaction time, depth/distance perception or their ability to track fast moving objects. Eye charts are no use for this either.
