elderly drivers

One of the principal ways of losing your elected position is not to piss off elderly voters. And the way to not piss them off is to refuse to pass a law that would require they be retested for their drivers’ licenses. Time and time again it’s come up that elderly drivers need to be retested...

Are we ready to do something about elderly drivers?

With new vehicle technology, and more crowded and changing roadways, navigating can be a challenge for older drivers in New Jersey.

The little bell goes off in my head whenever I see a story of a car careening through the window or front door of a store. It beckons me to ask myself, “could that have been the work of an elderly driver?” And many times the answer is “yes...

By Jeff Deminski Elderly drivers sometimes get speeding tickets. It's how they handle them that might set them apart from the rest of us. Take a look at this video and tell me police officers don't have a hard job!

By Jeff Deminski Early this morning in Lincoln Park police responded to a single car accident to find the vehicle fully engulfed in flames. Police quickly pieced it all together.

An elderly Whiting woman leaves herself homeless after crashing her car into her own home twice.

By Jeff Deminski Two elderly drivers, one 85 the other 75, pleaded guilty this week to driving drunk and striking and killing a woman in Westfield.

Baby boomers started driving at a young age and became more mobile than any generation before or since. They practically invented the two-car family and escalated traffic congestion when women began commuting to work. Now, 8,000 of them are turning 65 every day, and those retirements could once again reshape the nation's transportation.

We knew when my mother in law smacked up her late model Hyundai about a year and a half ago, it was time. Time that we were going to have to step up and schlep her around from place to place instead of inflicting her driving skills (or lack thereof) onto the rest of Ocean County...