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Sad News...Susan Ali Shepherd RIP

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Cornflake the Destroyer

A media pioneer who helped start the Bay Area's largest Spanish-language radio station was killed Friday night when an elderly motorist struck her as she walked across a San Francisco street with her husband and friends.

Susan Ali Shepherd, 53, of Larkspur was hit at 8:38 p.m. at Pine and Fillmore streets and was pronounced dead at 9:02 p.m. at San Francisco General Hospital, authorities said Saturday.

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2007/10/14/BAVJSPONE.DTL
 
This old woman who ran her over should be jailed. I don't give a damn how old she is.
Just like the old fart a few years ago ran over and killed 7 or 8 people, then said
they should have got out of his way.
 
Yeah, it's too bad that something like this has to happen before a driver's license is taken away from someone who had it longer than they should have. There are probably a lot more elderly people out there than any of us realize who can't see far enough past the front bumper of their car to know there's something or someone in front of them, and it isn't until they feel the blump blump of their car rolling over it that they know they hit anything.

Driving at 90 can be bad enough, but 90 years old and driving at night?

What a sad time for Susan's family...

:'(
 
"There are probably a lot more elderly people out there than any of us realize who can't see far enough past the front bumper of their car to know there's something or someone in front of them, and it isn't until they feel the blump blump of their car rolling over it that they know they hit anything."

Yes, though I'd bet it's not usually a vision problem, but a perceptual (mental) problem. Unless they have children or younger relatives who realize what's going on, they won't stop driving because they don't realize that they are driving dangerously.

I had to take my father's car away from him some years ago - he was 83, and it turned out he was in the beginning stages of Alzheimer's at the time. He had seemed a little spacey on occasion, but was having no memory problems, so I didn't realize how bad it was until I rode along with him in his car one day. It was frightening - and scarier still contemplating what could have happened.
 
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