Gloria Kositchek , 89, of Newbury Park, knows how a lot of people feel about seniors behind the wheel.
“They don’t like old ladies driving,” she said.
Kositchek said she is a competent driver, and has had just one traffic ticket in her life.
“A lot of my friends are afraid to go on the freeway, but I’m not,” she said. “I’m a freeway jockey.”
Kositchek is among about 70,000 drivers in Ventura County who are 65 or older, according to Ann Love , senior driver ombudsman for the California Department of Motor Vehicles. She said that of those, 1,300 are 90 or older and some have passed 100.
In 2011, the first of the baby boomers, those born from 1946 to 1964, will turn 65, so the number of seniors behind the wheel will increase. With that increase comes the debate over who should be allowed behind he wheel and how old is too old to drive.
Statistics suggest that drivers do become more unsafe as they age, but others argue that ability, not age, should determine whether a person can get behind the wheel.
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