CarFit helps keep aging drivers safer longer - Gainesville Times

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CarFit helps keep aging drivers safer longer

Many older drivers’ bumpers bear witness to a diminished ability to determine distances between the car’s exterior and other objects. “They kind of drive with their ears,” said one official. Above, Georgia Traffic Injury Prevention Institute Director Frankie Jones talks with a woman Tuesday afternoon in the First Baptist Church parking lot in Gainesville. - photo by NAT GURLEY

0626CARFIT 1 — Many older drivers’ bumpers bear witness to a diminished ability to determine distances between the car’s exterior and other objects. “They kind of drive with their ears,” said one official. Above, Georgia Traffic Injury Prevention Institute Director Frankie Jones talks with a woman Tuesday afternoon in the First Baptist Church parking lot in Gainesville. - photo by NAT GURLEY

A trio of state institutions conducted a CarFit checkup Tuesday to help aging drivers get a better fit with their vehicles. “It’s designed to make a mature driver drive safer, longer,” said Andrew Turnage in the First Baptist Church parking lot Tuesday afternoon in Gainesville. “That’s the entire goal of CarFit.”