Every time I read this my heart breaks for the families. Of course the driver was in his seventies. Of course the police will never question if he took meds forbidding him to operate heavy machinery.
Edit: took it down. Did not see someone fast faster than I I
stat turned out to be per mile when I looked it up, edited original comment
eg: https://www.nhtsa.gov/book/countermeasures-that-work/young-drivers
From your link “Except for drivers 80 years and older, per mile driven, young drivers are more involved in fatal crashes than older drivers.” and the stat “5.4 for drivers 80+”.
Those stats also was about drivers involved in a fatal crash. It doesn’t mention if the driver killed themselves or a pedestrian.
Yes, and the driver in question was 70. Meanwhile, drivers 16-20 make up only 5 annual cohorts compared to almost two decades of cohorts in 80+, and the population of 80+ drivers is very small. The absolute risk we face as a society from young drivers is astronomically larger than the 80+, even though they do get in more accidents per km, but older drivers get a disproportional amount of hate. There is confirmation bias and motivated reasoning happening.
If you are willing to assume that elderly drivers are more likely to die in a crash than young drivers, and you don’t care about consequences to the driver causing the crash, then that only makes the stats more damning against young drivers.
I think you got that backwards. My theory which I have no stats for is that young drivers are more likely to kill themselves and older drivers are more likely to kill pedestrians and crash into buildings.