Profpointy
Legendary Member
I am not sure you have read the thread.
The theme isn't about blaming any group for road traffic accidents or deaths: it is all about protecting people, including the drivers themselves, from the decline of driving ability associated with ageing. We aren't talking about a tiny minority here, either. We are actually talking about virtually every single driver on the road, at some stage of their lives. There is no attempt to stigmatise anyone, however much you seem to want it to be so. This is a real, every-day, heartbreaking, but deadly serious situation.
Taking someone's keys off them can actually signal the end of their independent lives, so it isn't to be undertaken lightly. However, there is their own good to consider, as well as the health and well-being of members of the road-using public. Thus the thoughtful tone of this thread, which you have somehow missed.
yebbut - the OP's description was of an old and unwell man, but no particular statement on whether he was or wasn't capable - then a a swathe of replies along the lines of "my great aunt nellie drove into a fence" - with a bit of an unstated implication that old people in general shouldn't drive. That's how it read to me anyway.