{"id":10625,"date":"2011-02-14T16:42:17","date_gmt":"2011-02-15T00:42:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spiken.wpengine.com\/news\/senior-drivers-need-more-training-too\/"},"modified":"2016-10-23T01:25:37","modified_gmt":"2016-10-23T08:25:37","slug":"senior-drivers-need-more-training-too","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/letters\/senior-drivers-need-more-training-too\/","title":{"rendered":"Senior drivers need more training, too"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I do agree with the assessment <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pnwlocalnews.com\/south_king\/ken\/opinion\/letters\/114733574.html\">that police officers do need more training before going solo on the streets<\/a> but I also see a need for more training for senior drivers. Once retirement age hits a more extensive retesting and retraining should be in place for all drivers. I recognize that my eyesight and reflexes are not what they were at 18, but not everyone is aware and may fear having less independence in the &#8220;golden years.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>I have seen enough erratic driving by seniors that if I were a police officer I would have to investigate. So yes, more sensitivity and anger management for police officers is obvious, but let&#8217;s include more training and reassessment for senior drivers as well.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>William Hunter<\/p>\n<p>Kent<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I do agree with the assessment that police officers do need more training before going solo on the streets but I also see a need for more training for senior drivers. Once retirement age hits a more extensive retesting and retraining should be in place for all drivers. I recognize that my eyesight and reflexes are not what they were at 18, but not everyone is aware and may fear having less independence in the &#8220;golden years.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":106,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"yst_prominent_words":[],"class_list":["post-10625","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-letters"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10625"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/106"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10625"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10625\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10625"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10625"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10625"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=10625"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}