These days, friends often get in touch that you haven't heard from in a long time.

They cheerfully tell what happened, they talk about the children and increasingly about the parents, who are getting older all the time.

"My mother got backwards and forwards mixed up last week and crashed into the garage door," says the friend.

She no longer drives a car.

At 85, that's a good decision.

Luckily there was only property damage.

Unfortunately, reports of older drivers causing serious accidents that result in death are increasing again at the moment.

There are two wrong-way driver accidents, in a parking garage an elderly woman runs over her husband, who wanted to brief her.

He dies.

One could list more examples, and as I said, things don't always end well, like the other day in Traunstein, when an eighty-year-old drove into a bookshop.

We are getting older and we are driving longer and more cars.

Unfortunately, society cannot build on the respective self-knowledge.

We know that from our own experience.

Even his own father drove too long.

Until the beautiful Mercedes was scrap.

Luckily only the car.

He was 81 at the time.

Many other countries have been doing it this way for a long time: From a certain age you have to see a doctor, otherwise your driving license will expire.

Yes, the effort is considerable, freedom is restricted, but traffic safety should be worth it to us.

Or do you want to continue to accept these old-age accidents?

They are becoming more and more, you can be sure of that.

An annual check from the age of 80 should be discussed.

Maybe even from 75. The lady who struck down her husband in the parking garage was 77.