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Byline: Kevin A. Wilson
The family of a second-grader killed when an 84-year-old woman crashed her car into an elementary school cafeteria in Shiloh, Illinois, in January issued a statement the next day, concluding: "We very much support a mandatory limit on the driving age for seniors.''
Although the family's statement was laden with grief and anger, that's very often people's first reaction upon hearing such stories: If we can make people wait until they're 16 or 18 years old to get a full driving license, shouldn't we make them surrender it at a set age?
AARP, the advocacy group for people older than 50, says not, arguing that age alone ...