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Originally Posted by dillywho
Why does everyone want to jump on the "senior" bracket bandwagon every time someone experiences a medical incident while driving? People of all ages have medical-related accidents all the time. Many do not even realize that they have any issues until then. Look at all the kids who die at school in the athletic programs due to unknown medical conditions. Just because their deaths are on the field or court doesn't mean that the same thing couldn't happen when they get behind the wheel. Maybe it does and we just don't hear about it. All we hear is that some kid had an accident and was probably texting, or speeding, or whatever.
Yes, some seniors have no business driving. Yes, some young drivers have no business driving. Yes, some in-between drivers have no business driving. As long as there are cars, accidents will happen, so let's not even go there. Accidents are a part of life; some accidents take lives. Not all accidents have to do with transportation, but some are still deadly. All the regulations/precautions in the world cannot prevent all manner of accident. All we can do is our best.
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I think that the poster your are responding to owns a small vehicle and thinks his choice of cars is superior to those of us who don't choose to drive clown cars. It's similar to the poster who doesn't own a golf cart and thinks his choice is a smarter choice to those that do own golf cars. The only ones we haven't heard from are those that never leave their homes who want to point out that if the jogger hadn't been outside his home he never would have been hurt.