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Letter of the Day (April 14): Drivers

April 13, 2012 at 11:46PM

Illustration by Star Tribune editorial artist Steve Sack -- traffic lanes, road signs, highway signs, this lane for guns, this lane for love, this one for violence, this way for cell phones, snail or slow-moving traffic, and so on. -- Population, the many varieties of people, etc. (Star Tribune/The Minnesota Star Tribune)

I was sorry to hear about the college students injured in a crash involving an 85-year-old woman going the wrong way on the freeway ("Gustavus students in wreck that killed wrong-way driver," April 4). It's wrong, however, for people to simply criticize senior drivers -- I've seen teens and middle-aged folks making the same mistake. It seems there are frequent stories about wrong-way drivers, and it's clear the problem spans the generations. You can't just blame elderly drivers for everything. If that were accurate, why does auto insurance go sky-high when there are teen drivers in the household?
LILLIAN IVERSON, BROOKLYN PARK