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Thread #87594 Message #1636714
Posted By: bobad
29-Dec-05 - 11:22 AM
Thread Name: BS: Older Drivers are Killers
Subject: RE: BS: Older Drivers are Killers
"So Bobad, at what age do YOU consider a man to be physically or mentally unfit?"
Don, It's not up to me to make the call that someone is not physically or mentally fit to be operating a motor vehicle, the responsibility for this assessment is up to the person's physician and a serious one it is as the physician can be held liable if it can be shown that he knew a person shouldn't have been driving yet neglected to have his license revoked.
This is an ongoing problem in the rural area in which I live as a car is a necessity and the revocation of one's driver's permit usually means the end of your living in your own home. My physician is also a personal friend and he often speaks of the battles he wages in trying to have elderly drivers' permits revoked.