Letter: Older drivers not always to blame

Tuesday, July 22, 2003 | 9:02 a.m.

There is no question that an 86-year-old man driving through a closed-off street in Santa Monica, Calif., killing numerous people attending a farmers market, caused a terrible tragedy.

Now there is this big outcry that anyone past age 70 should have their driver's license revoked or at the least restricted.

Yet there is hardly a day on the way to work that I don't see cars running red lights, flying through stop signs, zipping through school zones and drivers talking on cell phones, eating, applying makeup or combing their hair. And this is just on the surface streets. Not to mention the "road rally" on Interstate 15 and U.S. 95.

I haven't been able to pick up my Las Vegas Sun without reading every day of the carnage on the roads here. Check out the statistics to see how many were in the 18-to-70 age bracket.

RON MENDORFF

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