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Thread #87594 Message #2058667
Posted By: Don(Wyziwyg)T
22-May-07 - 06:13 PM
Thread Name: BS: Older Drivers are Killers
Subject: RE: BS: Older Drivers are Killers
Guest Roger,
If you are going to cite evidence to support your campaign, it might be as well to choose a scientific study, rather than a biased report cobbled together by someone as agist as yourself.
This program carefully selected a bunch of incompetent elderly drivers, and devoted three quarters of the time to showing how incompetent they were. The two competent elderly drivers used to present a fraudulent semblance of balance received about 5 of the 60 minutes.
Nobody is denying that there are bad older drivers out there. There are also bad middle aged, and bad younger drivers, but no one is singling the young or the middle aged out for special measures.
Logical examination would lead to the conclusion that you should be campaigning against BAD drivers, no matter what their age.
For you, it would be good if all drivers over 65 were removed from the roads so that you youngsters could kill one another unhampered by traffic. Of course, the downside is that you would then have nobody to blame but yourselves.
Don T. 66 years old and currently a professional driver. And yes, I took a driving test just five months ago, which confirmed that there is good reason for my forty five years of driving without a serious accident or conviction.