Animals
It seems whenever an elderly person or teen is involved in an accident the immediate reaction is to bar that age group from driving. But not all 84 year olds are the same, and neither are all teens.
Often loss of a drivers license would mean being stuck isolated at home in rural areas. Do we really want to do that to our elderly?
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Animals
Should The Elderly Be Barred From Driving?
After an 84-year-old driver plowed through an elementary school lunchroom this week, killing an 8-year-old boy, his mother pressed lawmakers to bar the elderly from getting behind the wheel.
It seems whenever an elderly person or teen is involved in an accident the immediate reaction is to bar that age group from driving. But not all 84 year olds are the same, and neither are all teens.
Advocacy groups for the elderly urge states not to overreact to each incident, noting that accidents happen in every age group and that taking away an older person's license could rob them of their independence.
Often loss of a drivers license would mean being stuck isolated at home in rural areas. Do we really want to do that to our elderly?
- Sophie Needs A Home
I am borrowing Socks, Scylla, Charybdis, Fenris and Alasandra's blog to ask the nice people on the Internet to help me find a new home. My name is Sophie and I am 11 years old, declawed and spayed. Because I am declawed I will have to...
- Age Is No Excuse
A man trying to park in a handicap spot Monday instead drove his Cadillac into the dining room of a restaurant, injuring five people, officials said. The driver and his wife appeared to be in their 70s or 80s, police spokeswoman Sr. Cpl. Donna Hernandez...
- 70 Year Old Plows Into Students
A sport utility vehicle jumped a curb outside a middle school Wednesday afternoon, plowed into a group of children waiting for a bus and rammed into a tree, trapping several students underneath, police said. Hospital officials said 13 children and the...
- Shouldn't They At Least Take Her Drivers License Away?
An 85-year-old woman whose car plowed through an elementary school cafeteria, killing a boy and injuring two other students, won't face criminal charges, a prosecutor said. "This was certainly not intentional," Robert Haida, St. Clair County state's...
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Just a quickie today....an update on our dear Rosalie.(You remember...she is our elderly chicken who was almost pecked to an early demise.) Rosalie is doing quite nicely, living at the barn.In fact, she has a suitor... Milford!It seems our handsome Milford...