Senior Drivers – Retest Them Already [POLL]

It gets scarier and scarier.

Just the other day a customer at a car wash forgot to make a left turn out of a car wash, and headed straight into the Hackensack River.

Check out the video:

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According to this report:

The elderly woman went to get her car cleaned Sunday and instead it got soaked in the Hackensack River. The entire incident was caught on tape.

Elizabeth Moore is now in good health and good spirits after an ill-fated trip to the car wash.

“My back hurts — that’s about it,” Moore, of River Edge, told CBS 2′s Elise Finch on Monday.

The 82-year-old took her Ford Escort to a Hackensack car wash like she had done many times before, but during her latest visit she failed to turn left toward the exit after leaving the wash area.

Surveillance video showed that instead she went straight, narrowly avoiding two SUVs before plunging directly into the murky water of the Hackensack River.

The car simply rolled through a dirt patch, down the rocks and into the water. The driver said she couldn’t turn or stop the vehicle.

Two employees and fellow customer Jay Orsino raced into the chest high water to help Moore out.

Moore said the incident doesn’t discourage her from continuing to drive. She said her son doesn’t want her to drive anymore.

Hackensack Police said because it was a single-car accident with no injuries, no charges will be filed. But because of the circumstances, the driver may be required to re-qualify for a driver’s license.

Ok, so now because of the incident, “the driver may be….not will be, but may be…required to re-qualify for a drivers license.

Do we have to wait until someone either kills themselves or someone else before we re-qualify elderly drivers for a license to drive?

This is what it's come to. Waiting for someone to die before doing the prudent thing and retesting seniors!

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