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Originally Posted by flstf
I agree that cellphone users of all ages are the most dangerous.
I notice on this poll that many consider the elderly to be the worst drivers. While that may be true, they are no where near the most dangerous. In fact the 65-69 age group is far less likely to be involved in a fatal crash than all other age groups and the 70+ age group less likely than all age groups up to about age 50. The 15-35 year olds have almost twice the number of fatal accidents per licensed driver than the elderly.
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Is that per 1,000 or as a whole, statistically speaking? I ask because there are more drivers under 30 on the road than over 70 and man for man, just wonder who is more at risk? The numbers of fatal accidents in a proportionately larger group might sway the final numbers, reflecting a total not consistent with a portion of the population.
As I stated earlier, there seems to be a rash here of teenage road fatalities and, very unfortunately, most times they're dying 3 or 4 to a car. I'd suspect that elderly could be equally as bad, but outnumbered.
Years and years ago, reports were surfacing that, while the elderly weren't dying as much in accidents, they WERE the cause of them more often than any other single group. This possibility, though, does NOT make this mother any less nervously anxious about the forthcoming age of licensing her children will WAY too soon have.