Elderly Driving

Elderly Driving

Do you agree or disagree with elderly drivers having to reapply for a driver’s license? I agree for many reasons there can be several depressing issues due to their age. When someone begins to get older they start to loose some of their eyesight. I wouldn’t want them to get hurt because they couldn’t see someone coming there way. Driving safe is the most important thing in the community and society. It is very dangerous for children, or pedestrians for no safe driving because they can get injured, or even killed.
If someone's vision is not good they shouldn’t be driving a vehicle until they be checked by a doctor, or get glasses. For example, there might be stop sign but you might have not see it, the pedestrian will immediately think that you will stop. Even though you still drove right passed it. This can cause serious injuries for the pedestrian, and yourself. Vision should be one of the top requirements in order to approve licenses. Elderly drivers should be required to do check ups yearly for there eye sight because older people can change eyesight faster then younger people. I believe that no person should be driving if they are not able to see. We do not need to keep rising up our car accidents more each year.
The ability to hear is another important thing for elderly drivers because they do not just have to be able to see, but to hear their surroundings while driving. For example, maybe one day the lights stop working and there is a traffic police telling you where to go. You would not be able to hear what they have to tell you, and it would become big traffic. While being able to hear traffic would not happen. You would be able to simply hear, and just drive wherever they might tell you to go.
Many accidents happen to elderly drivers for years now. They aren’t able to respond to things quick enough. Many examples on television, and on the roads that they aren’t able to quickly respond. Thousands and millions of elderly people die each year because of bad eyesight and reaction timing. For us to be able to stop preventing injuries or death it should be required for elderly citizens who still choose to drive to reapply for a driver’s license each year. This will stop many accident, and save many more people then how many we loose each year.
There is many people who would like to make sure elderly people are reapply because of how much high rate of death there is. The car accident rates for elderly drivers will drop if we use this methods, as well as the overall accidents in the United States. It is recommended for them to reapply for the bad eyesight, and hearing at there age. The ability to hear, see, and react quickly are the main factors to very safe driving in the United States. Think about it why disagree with this if we can save people lives. Think about others as well you may never know it can be you one day with the injury. So do you disagree or agree for senior citizens to reapply for there drivers licenses?