SSSnail
Lifer
So there I was, sitting in the left turn lane of Brookhurst and Trask waiting on the light to turn green so I can get on the freeway, all of a sudden I hear "Sccccrreeeeech, THUD!!!" to the right of me, naturally I looked (the parking lot to the right you're seeing has been renovated to accommodate an EZLube and car wash). There was an old man behind an old Buick facing cross traffic, seems like he was backing up and hit something hard (he was in the EZLube parking lot). His wife was standing outside of the car, the poor old lady could barely walk, making some sort of gestures for him to stop...
The next chain of event happened in slow motion, as I sat there with my jaw on the floor, I saw the old Buick lunged forward, hitting a white Camry on the rear quarter panel, split a truck and a Nissan pushing the Nissan smashed on to another car in the second lane, the truck in the third lane careened to almost hit the right side or my car. There was a Camry in front of me that got broad sided, picked him up tossed him side way into a light pole and pinned the driver door shut while missing the front of my car by inches. The Buick continued onto the opposite side of the street, hopped the curb, almost hit another light pole and stopped by a wall.
The weirdest thing was the expression on the old man's face, he didn't have that panic look, or was having medical difficulty... I couldn't tell you exactly what went through his mind, or didn't. I would even go as far to say that he had a grim determine look on his face.
His wife could barely walk, and was helped by an Asian chick towards his car. I was busy trying to get a shocked old guy out of his Camry that got pinned against the light pole. I left after that.
Which gets me to the question of how old is too damn old to drive? When are people starting to become a liability for themselves and others? Should we have mandatory check-ups for old people over certain age to make sure they have can operate something as deadly as, say, an automobile?
The next chain of event happened in slow motion, as I sat there with my jaw on the floor, I saw the old Buick lunged forward, hitting a white Camry on the rear quarter panel, split a truck and a Nissan pushing the Nissan smashed on to another car in the second lane, the truck in the third lane careened to almost hit the right side or my car. There was a Camry in front of me that got broad sided, picked him up tossed him side way into a light pole and pinned the driver door shut while missing the front of my car by inches. The Buick continued onto the opposite side of the street, hopped the curb, almost hit another light pole and stopped by a wall.
The weirdest thing was the expression on the old man's face, he didn't have that panic look, or was having medical difficulty... I couldn't tell you exactly what went through his mind, or didn't. I would even go as far to say that he had a grim determine look on his face.
His wife could barely walk, and was helped by an Asian chick towards his car. I was busy trying to get a shocked old guy out of his Camry that got pinned against the light pole. I left after that.
Which gets me to the question of how old is too damn old to drive? When are people starting to become a liability for themselves and others? Should we have mandatory check-ups for old people over certain age to make sure they have can operate something as deadly as, say, an automobile?
