Seniors on the hook for bad driving
To the editor:
Once again senior citizens are on the hook for their supposedly bad driving. Yet if we look at this fairly, they're better drivers than those in their teens and young adults.
Why? First, they obey the speed limit. Second, they're more courteous and third, they're more responsible.
Teenagers and young adults are responsible for road rage. They have no respect for other drivers. They get in more accidents — and that's why they pay three times as much for their car insurance. Check it out.
Taking a senior citizen's license away is taking their independence away, making them rely on someone to get their groceries, take them to the doctor, take them to church and all the other things seniors do in their daily lives.
Let us remember they earned the right to drive by serving in World War II, keeping our country free and safe. Had it not been for them, we'd be goose-stepping over to the hamburger joint and bowing for a cup of coffee.
Let's not forget those who gave their lives so their children could live free. We owe them. Now, it's payback time.
Arthur Catton
Haverhill
