Elderly Driver Stories

[CorvallisBMW]

My father just hit 75 and I'm worried about him... he's never been all that good of a driver anyway (very easily distracted, short attention span, only likes to follow the rules he thinks 'apply' to him...) He's started to only use his turn signal if there is someone right behind him in the other lane who might want to know, otherwise it remains untouched. Same with all stop signs, he only slows down if he sees someone coming from the cross-street. Scares the piss out of me if I ever have to drive with him, it won't be too long until I have to have 'the talk' with him.

I'm 100% behind testing elderly drivers, they cause more accidents than any other age group besides learners (16-21). Test them at 60, 65, 70, and every 2-3 years after that.

[evandael]

i personally dont have one, but my father did. so in a way this is personal because he tells me about it oh so frequently..

he had a gorgeous little fiat spider that was completely totalled by some old hag. it was a 4 lane road, two lanes in each direction. he was in the right lane, and she decided she needed to turn left onto an intersecting street. from the left lane. right into his drivers side.

she got away with it scott free because he was 18 and she was old and also seemed to know someone who knew the magistrate.


i curse that old woman every now and then. he said he still would have had that car today if not for her..

[slammin.e28]

We usually have one or two blow through the window at Hardees/Arbys/BK/etc Sundays after church lets out. Mistook the gas for the brake when parking. Or they put it in "D" instead of "R" and (apparently) floor it, as the cars usually end up almost all the way in the restaurant.

Other than that it's the usual left blinker shit, running red lights, and not looking when they merge with the opposite blinker on. Also, leaving the high beams on at night.

[nickpro]

Same intersection, 5 blocks away from my house. Coming home one day, some old lady runs right through the red. Thankfully, it's a big intersection and I could brake. Second, I was making a left. This is one of the intersection where the left turners go, then the people going straight go. Lady starts to go straight when I'm making a left, I lay on the the horn, and she flips me off.



Second, I was driving my Mother to Kinkos at about 9 one night in our e39. Going along on a divided highway, (2 lanes, no shoulder) I start to see headlights coming at me in my lane. Full high beams, horn, screaming, I swerve to avoid this dumb bitch. Thank god for track days and quick reaction times. Coming back, I see a police officer and ask what happened, Turns out she kept going, hit a suburban, suburban flipped and driver died.

http://www.southjerseylocalnews.com/articles/2011/02/11/maple_shade_progress/news/doc4d5588bc5d3b5270610236.txt

[NigelStu]

Last year, leaving work for lunch. Came up to a T-intersection and as I'm waiting for traffic to clear and light to turn green, I see a newer Lexus CUV (RX300?) driving on the main road and looking a bit tweaked with the right front sitting a bit low.

Right front tire was gone. GONE. Very little rubber left still clinging to the rim. Main tread was gone, just bits of the bead. Audible indication that that corner was riding on metal, not rubber. Not to mention that corner was a few inches lower than the others and the car was driving at a serious angle. The older lady appeared to be oblivious to the fact that she had a tire missing. Could even see that she had the steering wheel turned to compensate...

At first I thought that she was just driving to the nearest tire shop, which was 1/4 mile down the road. But she drove right past it and then nearly slid into the next intersection (image that, brakes don't work as well with just the rim....)

[antil33t]

90% of my customers are old people :(

some of them are arrogant fucking know-it-alls.

Customer was in paying for something, (we have a big window) spotted some old waffleswaffleswaffleswaffles in a ford laser unparking, he goes BAM into the customers car (backs into it) then just takes off as if nothing ever happens. I'm yet to see him come back.

then there's the ones that park poorly out front so customers can't park out front and have to carry heavy desktops accross the road.

and the ones that hog the right lane(well under the speedlimit) as if it's their god given right not to fucking keep left unless passing.

I just hate them. worse than teenagers.

some of them spew such arrogance..

[sarcasmkillsme]

Was cruising down this 4 lane road one afternoon. There was barely anyone on the road at the time...Saw up ahead the light was green when I notice a car with the brake lights on at the light. As I pass in the other lane I see its just an old man stopped at a green light, hands at 10 & 2...waiting for it to turn greener? But this isn't terribly unusual being as I live in Florida.

[Ryan Stewart]

Hold on, in Palm Beach this week. Already got about a dozen, should have a few fatalities by the end of the week.

[Kershaw]

old man was sitting in a turn late at a red turn light. decided he didnt like waiting anymore. pulled right out in front of while i was going through my green light. bent frame. totalled. $3k. :)

i do miss that car though. i had just gotten her running right... :/ and its stance was so perfect.

[pureaudio]

My Grandpa is 86 and really shouldn't be driving anymore but he flips out whenever anyone in the family says something about it. He is kind of the patriarch of our family so being told what he can or can't do isn't something that happens often. About 6 months ago he ran a red light and t-boned a car, what made it even worse is he still says that they say he ran the light, he doesn't think he actually did. My cousin and I talk to him all the time and have a really good relationship with him but even we can't convince him that he shouldn't drive.

Old drivers infuriate me like everyone else but it hits home with my Grandpa cause I see exactly why he gets pissed off. He is really intelligent, hell he built his last computer at 86 years old, but no matter what, he is getting older and his senses aren't there anymore.

[bmwstephen]

I'm taking away my moms license and car keys as soon as she gets to Social security age. doesn't help that she's going to be old with deteriorating vision and the "FOB-Asian" disorientation.

[ck_taft325is]

Can someone please change the title to "Stories" instead of "Sories".

I keep wondering what the fuck is this retarded thread about then I remember...

[QUKBMER]

I feel the same way about my dad he is 74,i just helped him get another e30. The last one was totaled (still trying to find the pic's) He pulled out in front of somebody going way to fast but still my dad made a left out on the 71 corona expressway and he got hit in the left door then spun around to the other side of the expressway got hit again in the front right fender area and then got hit in the rear quarter panel. He got nailed so hard in the door/a-pilar they had to take his shoes off to get his feet out from where the pedals where. I am really afraid that this will happen again before i get that e30. It was in 2004 when that happened.

[Eecen]

Okanagan region BC, no doubt.

Yeah, I live in Penticton.
Whats the saying; newly wed or nearly dead? Something like that..

Can someone please change the title to "Stories" instead of "Sories".

Done.
Lol...I dono how I pulled that one off.

[SoEm0]

Lol yeah. My great grandma had 4 hit and runs in a year before my family finally took her car. They were not serious, just fender benders in parking lots.