Americans for Older Driver Safety

3 days ago

Please remember that driving is a privilege...not a right. And nobody has the right to get into their vehicle when they are drunk. The life they take after getting into a crash may not be their own.

Driving while drunk is selfish...and it doesn't matter how old you are. You simply don't have the right to get behind the wheel of your vehicle drunk.

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Americans for Older Driver Safety

6 days ago

The nature of crashes where the driver hits the gas pedal instead of the brakes only to have their car go out of control is perplexing. A 97-year-old driver in Chula Vista, California hit the gas instead of the brakes in his SUV and crashed off the road and into a gas station. What cannot be explained, though, is why was this driver able to swerve and steer away from other vehicles only to careern into the gas station, yet he couldn't take his foot off the gas pedal to stop the car?

AFODS certainly hopes that this driver sought medical attention after this crash and that he is considering restricting his driving. More work needs to be done to understand why older drivers mistake the gas pedal for the brakes frequently causing crashes into buildings.

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Americans for Older Driver Safety

2 weeks ago

An aspect of driving that we don't often ask ourselves is...

Do our driving abilities warrant being behind the wheel of a commercial vehicle or extremely powerful car? Is there an age at which we should cease driving these vehicles?

In Milbank, South Dakota this past June, 82-year-old Gerald Boerger was driving a 1994 #Mack dump truck westbound and failed to stop at the stop sign at the intersection with South Dakota Highway 15, said the South Dakota State Patrol. The truck collided in the intersection with a 2016 Equipo Chevrolet that was northbound on the highway. Boerger suffered life-threatening injuries and later die. The occupants of the Equinox were also killed.

The question remains...was Boerger too old to be behind the wheel of a very heavy commercial vehicle? AFODS has read about crashes where the older drivers were driving such vehicles as a Tesla, Maserati, or Chevrolet Camaro. Think about the innocent people whose lives you might take from making a bad decision.

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