OTTAWA, April 3 (UPI) -- Debate on licensing elderly drivers in Canada reignited Thursday after an Ottawa incident in which an 84-year-old woman killed a woman and injured two others.
Police said the unidentified woman rammed her car into a glass bus shelter at a shopping center parking lot Wednesday, the Ottawa Citizen reported.
A 66-year-old woman was killed, a 77-year-old man remained in the hospital Thursday in stable condition and an 89-year-old woman was treated and released for minor injuries, the report said.
The incident happened the same day as the Canadian Traffic Injury Research Foundation released a report saying there are 3 million elderly drivers in Canada, which is expected to grow to 6 million by 2030, the newspaper said.
Under existing Ontario laws, a family doctor, the Ministry of Transportation and the courts are the only groups that can opt to revoke a senior's license.
Carol Libman, of Canada's Association for the Fifty-Plus, or CARP, told the newspaper older drivers shouldn't be stigmatized because of such accidents.
"People do make mistakes driving. It's not necessarily because they're 84," she said.
