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Millsboro, DE- The deceased victim of the fatal motor vehicle crash that occurred yesterday afternoon in Millsboro, DE has been identified as Betty J. See, 84, of Lewes, DE. The front seat passenger has been identified as Felicia J. Stroup, 64, of Virginia Beach, VA.
The crash remains under investigation by the Delaware State Police Crash Reconstruction Unit.
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Wow.84 huh? Instead if taken her license away her family allowed her to drive a mustang? Bad stuff.my great grand mother drove till she was 91.my family didn't listen ti my objections and she killed somebody.and I see lots of old folks doing 40 in a 55 while in the fast lane.and we wonder why so many older drivers get killed or kill
ReplyDeleteYoung people are the worst.
ReplyDeleteIn 2002, 16- to 20-year-old drivers had the highest fatality and injury rates per 100,000 licensed drivers. In fact, the fatality rate for young drivers was about three times the rate for drivers 25 to 64 years old.
In 2002, an estimated 56,053 young adults experienced incapacitating injuries. This number represents approximately 18 percent of all (302,957) incapacitating injuries.
In 2002, an estimated 149,645 young adults experienced nonincapacitating injuries. This number represents approximately 21 percent of all (716,246) people with nonincapacitating injuries.
Despite a small improvement in safety belt use for 16- to 20-year-old drivers, the percentage of fatalities in which the driver was not wearing a safety belt has remained more than 60 percent for the past 10 years. See Chart 10.
Drivers ages 16 to 20 have the highest involvement rates for fatalities and injuries in passenger vehicle crashes. This is especially true for male drivers in this age group.
Going by age group, drivers 65 or older represent the third highest risk group, trailing those between the ages of 16 and 20 and those 21-34. Drivers aged 35-54 are the fourth highest risk group and drivers 55-64 are the fifth.
But are these results influenced by the fact that older people spend less time behind the wheel than younger people? Studies which take into account the number of miles driven per year provide conflicting results. Some studies have indeed found that on a per-mile basis, seniors are somewhat more likely to be involved in car accidents.
But other studies have reached a different conclusion. A 2005 Dutch study found that when crash rates of drivers of different ages were compared with drivers who drove similar distances, most drivers 75 and up were safer drivers than all other drivers. Only older drivers traveling less than about 1,900 miles a year—just over 10% of all older drivers in the survey—had elevated crash rates.
Similarly, a 2008 review by the Howard County, Maryland, Commission on Aging found that crash death rates for older persons, particularly those over 80, “have been declining over the last 10 years” and commented that “current evidence is that the drivers who pose the greatest risks are the teenage grandchildren of this older generation.” One factor that likely plays an important role here is that many seniors know their limits—they know they don’t drive as well as night so they confine their driving to daylight hours.