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Why driving and old people don't mix
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MichaelD
Lifer
OMFG...I SWEAR I did not see him! :Q I thought that "white thing" was a shirt that had popped out of the suitcase or something.
Until you made me look, I didn't see him. My god...my bad. 😱
That said, I have lived thru the teens, the twenties, and now I'm in the thirties...been and done all the stereotypical driver things. The elderly are by far the biggest hazard on the roads today. They will run you over and honestly not know they even hit anytihing. If you look at this pic, you'll see that the guy has the "death grip" on the steering wheel and is staring straight ahead. No idea he just killed someone and ran a light. :roll:
Yeah, I know that pic has a werid visual quality to it, I though it was a shirt at first too. The pedestrians, and other drivers/passengers all have this completely horrified face, but somehow the granny is just oblivious to the mayhem. You'd think after the *thunk* she'd at least glance over...
MichaelD
Lifer
I seem to remember reading something awhile ago. Some group tried to get the US Govt to enforce mandatory driver retesting after age 60; the AARP lobbied and got it shot down.
Let's face it; the old folks have all the money. :| They can get pretty much anything they want, changed...or not, as it suits them.
ps
My mother is elderly. However, she does not drive. She's not a danger to anyone...unless you go over the house.
Let's face it; the old folks have all the money. :| They can get pretty much anything they want, changed...or not, as it suits them.
ps
My mother is elderly. However, she does not drive. She's not a danger to anyone...unless you go over the house.
Corporate Thug
Lifer
:shocked::shocked::shocked::shocked::shocked::shocked::shocked::shocked::shocked::shocked::shocked::shocked::shocked::shocked::shocked::shocked:
MillionaireNextDoor
Platinum Member
We can't do a thing about it until young people start voting.
mAdD INDIAN
Diamond Member
There was a local incident here where an old lady was driving, hit a lady, and dragged her underneath the car for over a kilometer, until someone flagged her down. Poor lady died. 🙁
I have another incident (not as bad luckily) that occured to me & my family. We were on the highway at night, coming around a bend, and at the end of hte bend there was an division of lanes that led to an off ramp. So we cross the bend and narrowly missed a car THAT WAS STOPPED RIGHT ON THE LANE THAT LED TO THE OFF RAMP! THey didn't even go to the shoulder or left the lights on...they were right there on the lane with no lights. Keep in mind they stopped right at the end of the bend, so you can't see them until the very last second. So anyway, my uncle narrwly avoids the stopped car by slamming on the brakes and then changing lanes....however in the process, the RX300 behind us couldn't react in time and hit us. The stopped car was unscathed since my uncle's car took the grunt of the damage.
So me and my uncle talk to the RX300 driver and then approach the stopped car. We assumed the car was dead and hte occupants had called a tow truck or something (this was around 11pm). Apparently not. The car was running with hte outside lights off, no hazards - nothing, and hte occupants, and elderly couple, were reading a map with the interior lights on.
And they were totally oblivious to what happened around them. When we asked them why they stopped on the lane, they just took off!
I have another incident (not as bad luckily) that occured to me & my family. We were on the highway at night, coming around a bend, and at the end of hte bend there was an division of lanes that led to an off ramp. So we cross the bend and narrowly missed a car THAT WAS STOPPED RIGHT ON THE LANE THAT LED TO THE OFF RAMP! THey didn't even go to the shoulder or left the lights on...they were right there on the lane with no lights. Keep in mind they stopped right at the end of the bend, so you can't see them until the very last second. So anyway, my uncle narrwly avoids the stopped car by slamming on the brakes and then changing lanes....however in the process, the RX300 behind us couldn't react in time and hit us. The stopped car was unscathed since my uncle's car took the grunt of the damage.
So me and my uncle talk to the RX300 driver and then approach the stopped car. We assumed the car was dead and hte occupants had called a tow truck or something (this was around 11pm). Apparently not. The car was running with hte outside lights off, no hazards - nothing, and hte occupants, and elderly couple, were reading a map with the interior lights on.
And they were totally oblivious to what happened around them. When we asked them why they stopped on the lane, they just took off!
sciencewhiz
Diamond Member
That's exactly why I think this is fake. I can't see how a 100+ lb person can be perfectly horizontal on the side of the car like that. At a minimum, there should be some damage visible where the car hit.
It looks almost like someone put a dummy on the side of their car to scare people.
bolido2000
Diamond Member
You can't touch old farts. They are the only ones who vote. Their lobbying groups is one of the most powerful too
dmcowen674
No Lifer
Wow, quite a pic, pretty obvious the old lady either never saw the red light or took off and really stepped on it.
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