Health Business Blog » Putting the brakes on the Boston Globe’s demonization of older drivers

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by David E. Williams of the Health business blog

In Newspaper nonsense on elderly drivers I berated the Boston Globe for its weird fixation on elderly drivers as doers of evil who need to be clamped down on. Since then, the Globe has continued this odd focus, most recently with an October 4 editorial calling for older drivers to undergo mandatory road tests to keep their licenses.

The Globe’s attention would be more understandable if elderly drivers were in fact a menace, but the facts are as follows:
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