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Aug 27, 2014
2:32:06pm
It may be that he's past the time when he should be driving. My wife
was driving our mini-van and an elderly lady rear ended the mini van three times at a stop light. You read that correctly. She hit our van, backed up and then put her car back in drive instead of park and hit it again. Then she backed up one more time and did the same thing to hit it a third time. The police officer who responded to the accident told my wife he couldn't take her license away (and I believe he's right). But I wonder how many people she wrecked into before that day who let her off the hook because she was a nice old lady.

Similarly, my MIL who has been living with us for almost three years with severe Alzheimer's, drove well past when she should have. My BIL and I tried like crazy to get my HCBW and/or my SIL to take away her keys for months before it actually happened. She took some grandchildren to the store (before we really understood how bad things were). She not only left her keys in the car, she left the car running the entire time they were in the store. Upon getting through the check stand, she became worried that she couldn't find her keys. A few weeks later, she complained to my BIL that her car wasn't working. It turns out she couldn't remember how to put the car in reverse. He helped her and she promptly backed speedily out into the street without turning her head at all or looking in a mirror. My BIL said, "She's going to kill someone if we don't stop her from driving."

Luckily, a short time later she lost her keys and was incapable of looking for them well enough to find them. My SIL took her spare set out of her house without telling her and she never drove again.

Long story short, I know it's too late, you might be saving a life by turning this guy in.
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