Senior driver tip line raises concerns - Donald Parks

By: Letter to the Editor

 | Mar 13, 2013 - 1:38 PM
I have some doubts and worries about the so-called senior driving “snitch line.”

It seems to me that seniors are about to get the short end of the stick, particularly when people can make anonymous complaints about someone’s driving.

Therein lies the problem. What if I lived near someone who does not like me and decides that, to get even, he phones in a complaint? I do not have the right to face my accuser.

You say that as people grow older they become better drivers, then why is it I have, at times, been passed by people who appear to be at least in their 30s or 40s?

Even though I was going the speed limit, they go by as if I was standing still. I have even been passed by a police cruiser on occasion with no flashing lights.

I have had my permit to drive since I was 17 and have driven in many parts of the world, and held standing orders in the armed forces to drive any vehicle they had.

So if I am not qualified to drive on the roads here in Canada, then I don’t know who is.

Donald Parks
Chelmsford 

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