Why old people shouldn't be allowed to drive
 

Driver's test goes bad

By Cathi Arola - The Chronicle-Journal

September 18, 2003

From now on, when Stephanie Majewski wants to get from point A to B, she?ll be doing it on bus or by foot.

The 81-year-old has failed her driver?s test five times in the past. During the sixth time yesterday, she didn?t speed through any stop signs or forget to signal before changing lanes. Majewski?s car barely left the parking lot.

Just before 2 p.m. yesterday, while backing out of a handicap parking spot at Thunder Bay?s McIntyre Centre, Majewski ? with her Drive Test examiner in the passenger seat ? went about 25 metres too far and went over a steep embankment into the McIntyre River.

Luckily, her four-door 1991 Ford Tempo wasn?t flooded. Only the back end was submersed in the shallow water.

The driver and tester, neither injured, got out of the car on their own. When police arrived, they were wrapped in blankets.

Majewski paced the scene nervously while her female passenger seemed distraught and was being consoled by police officers and others at the scene.

?I?m sorry for her,? Majewski said as she looked in the direction of the tester who was seated in a cruiser with an officer speaking to her while kneeling at her level.

?There?s never been a scratch on the car,? she said.

Majewski?s sandaled feet were caked with mud from climbing the embankment.

When asked what went wrong, Majewski shook her head and explained that she was trying to reverse from the parking spot.

It took a tow truck about 15 minutes to pull the car from the river. As the car was raised, a stream of water gushed from the rear window and back doors.

A rainbow-like stream of gasoline and its distinct odour were the only signs of the accident.

Police investigation continues.

im 2 lazy to read
but they shouldn't!

sounds like my Ex mother in law

The day you retire (65) is the day your license should be pulled

you should have to goto driving college

A LOT of people shouldn't be allowed to drive.

because they are old and can't see and have no coordination

Most people that aren't me don't know how to drive.

:1orglaugh :thumbsup

Just come to Florida, They give ANYONE a drivers licence, really SUCKS when you have to drive anywhere...


Gray Hairs :321GFY

:2 cents:

I enjoy trailing them when they're going 20 under the limit. It's real exiting.