#FLORIDA DRIVING TEST 2017 DRIVERS#
I've long thought states should periodically test older drivers, perhaps with the same behind-the-wheel road test they administer to teens.įlorida now requires drivers 80 and older to pass an eye test every six years when they renew their license. And drivers age 85 and older have the highest fatal crash rate per mile driven of any age group, including those 20-to-24-year-old hotheads.īy 2030, Florida roads might be significantly less safe than they are now. But statistically, the crash rate per mile driven begins to climb at about age 70. Individually, they might be cautious drivers. In 2015, according to the Florida Department of Highway Safety and Motor Vehicles, that narrow age group was responsible for 13.1 percent of all crashes and 14.5 percent of all crashes involving a fatality.Īs the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety notes, older drivers are keeping their licenses longer and driving more miles than in the past. Teen drivers often are the most crash-prone, but here in Florida drivers age 20-24 actually are worse. One of those two people had her right leg amputated.Ĭrashes happen. Let's just say I didn't read about her in the paper the next morning.īut I thought of this incident, which occurred last year, when I saw a recent story of an 81-year-old driver in Boynton Beach who hit the gas instead of the brakes and slammed into two people near an ATM. and there wasn't much traffic, and I figure she ultimately found her way into the right lane. The light turned green and I veered around her car she just sat there. Her northbound car was in the southbound lanes. 1 at Goldenrod Road in Jensen Beach when I stopped for the light - and saw her.Ī white-haired driver, an older lady, also was stopped at the light - and thank God, because she was pointed the wrong way.
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