The Boston Herald has a story today following up on the status of legislation before the state officials to impose additional testing for elderly drivers. The need for some type of legislation has been spurred by a series of accidents involving older drivers. Three of them have been fatal. A Boston crossing guard was killed in October, a Weymouth police officer was killed in August, and a 4 year old Stoughton girl was killed last June.

According to the article legislation could be on Governor Patrick’s desk by the end of the month. Senator Joyce (D-Milton) who has been advocating for additional testing for over 2 years had this to say, “It’s about time we do something,” said Sen. Brian A. Joyce (D-Milton), the top proponent of legislation further regulating elderly drivers. “It’s time we had the political will and common sense to pass some legislation to ensure the safety of our senior drivers as well as other motorists and pedestrians.”

You can read the full article here.

In a poll we conducted, 80% of the respondents felt that testing of elderly drivers was required and 20% felt that either existing legislation was sufficient or that it legislation should focus on safety of all drivers, not just the elderly.