A fail in our streets People over 65 should not be permitted to drive because they are such a problem. Based on the statics of the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration they are reported 30 million people over the age of 65 were licensed drivers in the U.S. This is 15 percent of all licensed drivers. John Kennedy, executive director of NSC Defensive Driving Programs said “With our senior driving population growing, there will be more drivers over the age of 65, potentially causing serious safety issues on our roads.” When people get older, they develop health diseases and corporal degenerate. Elderly people loss many of its abilities and they can react to the activities that normal happened in the roads. They are two main reasons that support my point: physical and mental illness. First, when people get older they start to develop some physical diseases that affect their capacity to drive. For example, loss of vision, arthritis or fatigue meanwhile they are driving. Elderly people can’t see the same things or the same distance through they are going older. Also, they have other health problems like arthritis. Just imagine that a senior cause you an accident and then you know that the cause of the accident was that the old man has arthritis. It not was his fault, is fault of the authorities that permitted that people that aren’t in conditions to drive manage in our streets. Senior also can be affected by hearing problems that can affected them if they don’t hear a beep of another car or other auditory signs that help us in the road. On the other hand, we have the mental illness that can be, for example, anxiety, not many ability to focus, slowest reaction time and insufficient self-confidence. They are a lot of widowed seniors that doesn’t have the confidence to drive because their husband did it everything in the house and they not have experience to drive. Also, it cost too much for elderly drivers to get focus on what they are doing. They also have a lot of anxiety and stress a cause of the how the drivers drive. Sometimes, they passed red lights because they have a lower reaction time.
To conclude, the authorities must do something with elderly drivers. Is obvious that they are a problem in our roads and the responsible of a lot of traffic accidents. When people get older they losses a lot of abilities, one of these is to drive the right way. To deal with elderly drivers problems we need to know that they are a real problem and that we should test them. People over 65 should not be permitted to drive.