| Elderly Driver Injures 6; 90 Year-Old
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| | you can get more than one family member
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| Crashes Into Day Care; Cheerleader Killed
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| | to take a ride at different times of the
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| By Senior.
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| | day you will have a pretty good idea of
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| Seen any headlines like these lately? Of
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| | how the driving is doing.
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| course, it's not true that all drivers
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| | Combine your observations and make a list
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| over the age of 65, or even 85, are
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| | of specific things you observed.
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| dangerous drivers. It's no more true than
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| | If your driver's physician has made the
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| thinking that all drivers under the age
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| | recommendation that driving be curtailed
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| of 21, or all drivers from New Jersey are
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| | or stopped, do your best to get a copy of
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| accidents waiting to happen.
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| | this recommendation in writing.
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| But it usually comes to pass that aging
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| | Work out alternate transportation
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| drivers do lose physical and or mental
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| | arrangements before you approach your
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| agility, and we need to be keeping an eye
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| | driver. You will want to be able to offer
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| on our aging loved ones to be sure that
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| | practical alternatives to taking the car
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| they're still safe and confident behind
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| | if you will be asking or demanding that
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| the wheel.
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| | he or she stop driving. Finding
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| Some elderly drivers will begin cutting
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| | convenient alternatives may be a
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| back on their driving on their own.
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| | challenge, but this should never be an
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| Others may not recognize that their
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| | excuse for procrastinating about getting
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| skills are deteriorating. These are the
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| | a dangerous driver off the road.
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| drivers who regularly overestimate their
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| | Most experts recommend that you talk with
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| abilities, blaming poorly designed roads,
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| | your elderly driver as a concerned and
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| hard-to-see traffic signs, or other
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| | loving group. Often one member of the
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| drivers for their near misses and
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| | family group will be the most obvious
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| fender-benders.
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| | spokesperson. Sometimes it is the person
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| Family members are naturally reluctant to
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| | with whom the driver has the best
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| step into such an emotionally loaded
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| | relationship. Sometimes, though, if the
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| subject. But when it becomes obvious that
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| | conversation is guaranteed to end poorly,
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| an older driver is having a hard time on
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| | a better spokesperson is the family
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| the road, whether admitted or not,
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| | member who lives the most distant and who
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| something must be done to protect the
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| | is least likely to have to "hear about
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| lives of both the senior driver and other
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| | it" daily.
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| people.
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| | Your elderly driver's response will
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| Many family members may have concerns
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| | depend on many things, including whether
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| about a senior's driving abilities, but
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| | this issue has been discussed before and
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| they have no hard evidence one way or the
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| | his or her physical and emotional health.
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| other. If your older driver has had a
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| | Don't allow yourselves to be drawn into
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| serious traffic accident or has received
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| | an argument, and don't be surprised if
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| a ticket for a moving violation, then of
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| | your driver's reaction is extremely
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| course driving has to stop immediately.
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| | negative or even abusive. Retreating from
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| If you don't have this kind of evidence,
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| | what you know needs to be done to protect
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| taking several rides with your senior
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| | both your elderly driver and the others
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| driver the logical first step. After your
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| | on the road will only make the discussion
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| rides make notes of what you observed. If
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| | even more difficult the next time.
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