Byzantium's Shores: chronicling the misadventures of an overalls-clad hippie

Remember that accident last week, where Wilford Brimley's older brother hit the gas instead of the break and thus ended the lives of ten people? Sure, how could you forget...well, courtesy News of the Weird, this kind of thing is hardly an isolated incident:

America's most underrated highway safety problem appears to be senior drivers who mistakenly step on the accelerator instead of the brake: Henry Clax, 78, Jersey City, N.J. (hit three lampposts and then 13 people coming out of a Jehovah's Witnesses assembly, April); Marcella Stahly, 63, Albuquerque (tore through the front wall of a fruit market, March); Ms. Nahid Nainzadeh, 64, New Fairfield, Conn. (plowed halfway into a bank, April); Leonard Borok, 81, Coral Springs, Fla. (crashed through the front window of a post office, May); Waunona Reed, 85, Crescent City, Ore. (struck 26 people leaving an Assembly of God church, January). [Newsday-AP, 4-19-03] [Albuquerque Journal, 3-27-03] [Danbury News-Times, 4-19-03] [South Florida Sun-Sentinel, 5-6-03] [Eureka Times-Standard, 1-5-03]

The more I think about it, the more I think that the renewal of a driver's license should involve continued testing, not just signing a quick form for the DMV.