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Road accidents involving ‘elderly’ drivers

There has been a spate of traffic accidents involving drivers over the age of 70.

June 18, 2018

RECENT ROAD ACCIDENTS INVOLVING DRIVERS OVER THE AGE OF 70:

* 91-year-old woman died in Royal Perth Hospital after a two-car collision, June 14.

* 73-year-old man saved from his burning car after it rolled in Gympie, Queensland, June 7.

* Man in his 70s was lucky escape after flipping his car and caravan on the Kwinana Freeway south of Perth, June 6.

* 75-year-old man died after his vehicle collided with a truck on the Cunningham Highway, near the Gold Coast, May 30.

* 84-year-old man died after crashing his car into a neighbour’s house near Fremantle. Police believe the man pressed the accelerator instead of the brake, May 27.

* 78-year-old died after a horror crash involving his vehicle and a truck on the Princes Freeway in Melbourne, May 23.

* Man in his 90s taken to hospital with minor injuries after crashing his car into a physiotherapy practice in Melbourne, May 22.

* 78-year-old driver died after his car collided head-on with a horse transport truck in the NSW Hunter Valley, May 22.

* 83-year-old man died after a two-car smash in Melbourne’s east, May 10.

* 88-year-old woman narrowly escaped serious injury after driving her car up the steps of the National Australia Bank in Kalgoorlie, May 9.

* 85-year-old driver trapped in his burning ute after driving into a parked tow truck on the Peninsula Link freeway in Melbourne before escaping serious injury, May 5.

* 72-year-old man lost control of his car and reversed over an 85-year-old woman at a car dealership on the NSW Central Coast while trying to park, May 2.

* 90-year-old driver crashed his car into a traffic pole, killing his 94-year-old male passenger, April 29.

* 84-year-old man died days after the car he was driving left the road, became airborne and flipped on the Pyrenees Highway in Victoria, April 9.

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