Have you had more accidents with youths than adults on the roads?
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Ive spent a lot of time on the road, through work as a professional driver and for pleasure on my bike. In my experiance the worst examples of poor, unsafe and dangerous driving is from the late middle aged and oap age brackets. You wouldn't belive some of the stupid things these people do in the belief that they are driving safely. Only this week i saw an old man in a metro indicate right and turn onto a zebra crossing heading for the pavement under the impression that it was a junction!
The two wrecks I have been involved in (driving at least) were caused by an elderly driver. One refused to stop at a stop light and hit me (she was 83 at the time. The other cut me off, slammed on his brakes--I rear ended (his fault I got the ticket) him. He was 77.
in the local paper 80% of the wrecks are cause by people over 70. There is a good share caused by others but a majority seems to be elderly.
No - but I have had too many "near-accidents" with young
drivers.
Never had similar involving eldery people who usually have more
common sense.
I can only go by what i have seen and adults have more accidents
i have had 2 accidents with women under the influence. in the first one she screamed at me until i drove her to a bar for a drink because her car was to wrecked to drive hereself to the bar.
I have avoided numerous accidents with old people. they move slow so when they pull out in front of you its usually easier to avoid than if someone at normal speeds was doing the same thing.
"Youths" tend to drive irresponsibly, and cause accidents.
Old adults (over 70) tend to drive dangerously but get away with it.
Most of my near-accidents involved older drivers. Younger drivers spend alot of time in their cars, especially boyracers, so they have great control and judgement.
I passed my test 4 years ago at 17, since then i have owned 2 GTIs a monedo 2.5 V6 and a 200bhp honda sports car. I have driven over 100,000 miles in this 4 years having never had a crash or bump. Young/old male/female genraly makes no diffrence. Its just individual responcablity that counts. Young people are just scapegoats for people who need to blame someone, as with people in performance cars.
I have seen stupid mistakes and near misses by eldery drivers. I almost hit one as he just pulled out of a junction without stoppin.
some kids can drive a car very well at 100 mph, some can't ! go figya ?
The four accidents I've had that weren't my fault were caused by 35-45 year old men. Strangely, they all had kids in the car so maybe the youths indirectly caused the accidents.
Of the two accidents I caused, I was a youth at the time. I put both of them down to inexperience.
Recently witnessed a woman in her 70's fail to stop at a cross roads and a young girl smashed into her. Personally, although the old lady was at fault, I think a more experience driver in the other car wouldn't have reacted the same way (locked brakes until vehicle hit) and possibly avoided contact.
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