Re: Should drivers over 70 hand in their keys ?
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Originally Posted by LG17
"It comes as new crash figures from the Centre for Road Safety show the age group with the largest number of fatalities on the state’s roads in the past year were people aged over 70 years old, with 64 killed."
This appears to be the same method they use for speeding causing deaths - there's no indication if those 64 lost souls were responsible for the accident which killed them, just that they were killed. :(
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Yes- stats are stats, only as good as the underlying assumptions/facts.
Obviously take 100 people aged 70 and over, compared to 100 people aged 20-30, involved in accidents of high speed of similar physics, the older people are more likely to suffer serious injury/death due to fragility/less muscle mass/osteoporosis/pre-existing pathology.
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