Study: Older drivers not such a hazard
By Connie Midey
The Arizona Republic
SUN CITY, Ariz. (Aug. 18, 2009) -- Once a week, Ruthie Culver steps into her golf cart and drives the 3 miles or so from her home to Banner Boswell Medical Center in Sun City, where she volunteers.
If it's raining, she gets behind the wheel of her Buick.
Culver is 102, and startling though it may be to find someone her age still driving, there is this: She is not the state's oldest driver.
And this: Older drivers may not be quite the hazard to others that younger drivers imagine them to be, according to a recent national study that yielded unexpected results.
Of the 4.3 million Arizonans with active driver's licenses, 77 are 100 and older. The oldest is a 105-year-old Phoenix resident. Thirty-nine are men, 38 women.
