cbs11tv.com - Elderly Drivers Could Face Stricter Driving Rules: " A proposed state law would force drivers to take a test when they hit 90 years old and require retesting every two years after that.
House Bill 84 was created in part because of a fatal wreck at the intersection of Preston and Royal in Dallas.
A 90-year-old driver drove through a stoplight and killed high school student Katie Bolka. "
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I feel it an obligation to my baby sister to comment on this even if it is never read or is read and disregarded. When she was 4 years old she was walking on a side walk in front of a restaurant with my mother and aunt. A woman in her seventies was pulling in her handicap parking space and mistakingly hit her gas instead of her brake. The car hit my aunt and mother and the woman panicked hitting the gas again and literally running over my little sisters little body. She had a rushed pelvis, femur, clavical, and barely escaped brain damage and death as she was brought back to life by paramedics. She was in the ICU for months and the hospital for longer. She has survived this incident but with require plastic surgery in the future. I DO NOT CARE if elederly people feel this would take away their independence. This type of thing has been happening for years and nobody will do anything significant about it. My sister, aunt, and mother should never have gone through the medical issues they have experienced. I DO NOT CARE if adult children feel bad for taking their parent's licenses away, but here's a solution- it could be the law. It's the laws fault that my family experienced this horrific event, and hopefully it will be the law's fault for taking the elderly's license away!
If enacted it should be directed to everyone who kills someone while driving a car, NOT restricted to older generations.
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