I hope all involved return home safe and healthy. Perhaps mandatory retaking of driving tests at certain ages could help uncover these medical problems and lead to a decrease in these types of accidents.

Miss S, I share you sentiments and hope both drivers make a speedy recovery.

Instead of insisting additional testing, maybe its time to start outlawing human drivers? I am not sure why type of testing you suggest people should go through to prove they are good drivers. Many conditions are unpredictable. May Google has the answer. Automated cars that drive themselves.......

Or... instead of being sarcastic, we actually look at the fact that some elderly people simply do not possess the skills and abilities to operate a vehicle. A retake of the test we all took the first time would prove ability and maybe after a certain age a doctor would have to sign off that the driver is able to operate a vehicle.

That's 1200 bucks for Fair Lawn. Keep the oldies driving, we need the revenue.

other states already have mandatory testing for all drivers over a certain age, I believe PA will not allow you to renew your licenses unless cleared by a doctor after a certain age and yes they have minimin standards that all drivers would have to meet before a doctor could sign off.

@Thomas Paine if a doctor were to simply sign off as you suggest then they would I presume be looking at a liabilty issue if that driver were to cause an accident and injure another

My mother's doctor signed off and reported her to the DMV when he diagnosed her dementia since she insisted on driving to the point where we disabled her car and took away her keys. There are a lot of people with covert medical problems, and overt ones that emperil everyone they share the road with. My mother was starting to leave a trail of broken tail lights and finally had a serious injury in an accident where she also hurt someone else - that's what led to her medical diagnosis. Doctors can and do report people in NJ all the time - they can even do it confidentially. The DMV requested my mother come in for testing, and when they did, and she didn't, they pulled her license. It tough not being able to drive, but being the instrument of death for yourself or others?...

Bruce Knucle,
Thank you for the very interesting information regarding the $600 per person charge when our ambulance is called out. Seems like it has the potential to cause a real firestorm of debate. I'm sure we will all hear more in the near future.
Thanks again!
Fred