So many 100-year olds have a driver’s license

Posted on 10-05-2016 at 20:57 by RubenPriest – 67 Comments”

How many extremely elderly actually have a pink card?

A hundred years ago was 1916. Das best a long time ago. Nevertheless, there are still living fossils of this age, or even older, who participate actively in the movement. If these people are actually capable enough to be on a good way to come up with the rest: respect. Otherwise, one is allowed to me on the couch.

There is in a hundred years of traffic changed a lot on the roads and in the field of the automobile industry. Difficult to come for those old people, you would think, but yet there are still 33 people who are 100 or older and have a valid driver’s license. Of these 33, 17 are exactly 100 years old, 13 are 101 years old, two people 103 years and one person is even 104 years old. These figures are sourced from the RDW, requested by the AD. Nowadays, it is true that elderly people with age from 75 years every five years to be inspected or that they are still a decent way to take part of the traffic. Previously this was 70 years, but since January 1, 2014 this rule through the actions of Minister Schultz van Haegen extrapolated to 75 years. In addition to directors from 75 years of age or older, a compulsory medical examination to undergo.

All kinds of accidents with a special cause, we often hear that here the elderly are involved. We saw yesterday a striking incident of the day. in Rotterdam where an 84-year-old man a classical rijfout made. It is at the same time difficult to find a solution for this problem. A driver’s license just to take it away on the basis of age is not an ideal solution and tends towards discrimination. Since 2000, the number of road fatalities will be halved to 570 road deaths in 2014. However, the 70 year olds who most often perish due to an accident. In 2014, 40 percent of the dead a person of 70 years or older. Important for him to mention is that 37 percent of these deaths are transported by bike and not by car.

Photo: the old woman and her Golf