One of Winter Park driving coach Eddie Feliciano's recent success stories involves an 88-year-old man at hazard of losing his drivers license.
The student had avoided a head-on crash but in doing so, he ran his car off the road. That's when state motor-vehicles officials compelled Orlando's Gerald Cope to prove he was still a talented driver. Feliciano helped Cope, who has been driving since age 14, get ready for those tests.
He had no trouble. He drove better than I did, said Feliciano, who operates Road Ready Watchdog Driving School based in Winter Park and gave Cope a little pointers. I really went to his road test, and he passed.
The story illustrates that not all aged drivers are unfit to get behind the wheel. In fact, Feliciano suspects many become targets of law enforcement just because they have a head of white curls.
Fair or not, inspection often falls on Florida's senior drivers whenever one is involved in a deadly wreck or a collide that gains publicity for some other reason. Late last month, an 81-year-old driver in Lake Placid failed to yield while turning onto a rustic highway and hit the side of a tour bus, causing it to roll. Two people died.
And the driver's age was a famous part of that story.
Closer to home, an aged couple from out of state died after the driver lost control of his Buick and ran into a pond along U.S. Highway 192 in Osceola County very last March.
Other stories of seniors driving into storefronts or causing pile-ups on highways create for quick-hit headlines and television noise bites.
But the actuality is, licensed seniors driving in Florida are far less likely to be involved in crashes -- both deadly and nonfatal -- than their youngest counterparts sharing the highway.
The student had avoided a head-on crash but in doing so, he ran his car off the road. That's when state motor-vehicles officials compelled Orlando's Gerald Cope to prove he was still a talented driver. Feliciano helped Cope, who has been driving since age 14, get ready for those tests.
He had no trouble. He drove better than I did, said Feliciano, who operates Road Ready Watchdog Driving School based in Winter Park and gave Cope a little pointers. I really went to his road test, and he passed.
The story illustrates that not all aged drivers are unfit to get behind the wheel. In fact, Feliciano suspects many become targets of law enforcement just because they have a head of white curls.
Fair or not, inspection often falls on Florida's senior drivers whenever one is involved in a deadly wreck or a collide that gains publicity for some other reason. Late last month, an 81-year-old driver in Lake Placid failed to yield while turning onto a rustic highway and hit the side of a tour bus, causing it to roll. Two people died.
And the driver's age was a famous part of that story.
Closer to home, an aged couple from out of state died after the driver lost control of his Buick and ran into a pond along U.S. Highway 192 in Osceola County very last March.
Other stories of seniors driving into storefronts or causing pile-ups on highways create for quick-hit headlines and television noise bites.
But the actuality is, licensed seniors driving in Florida are far less likely to be involved in crashes -- both deadly and nonfatal -- than their youngest counterparts sharing the highway.
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