Driver, 100, hits 11 near elementary school

Preston Carter, 100, talks with police officers after his car went onto a sidewalk and plowed into a group of parents and children outside an elementary school.

LOS ANGELES – A 100-year-old man backed his car on to a sidewalk and hit 11 people, including nine children, across from an elementary school in South Los Angeles just after classes had ended Wednesday, authorities said.

Four of the children were in critical condition when firefighters arrived but they were stabilized and were in serious condition at a hospital, city fire Capt. Jaime Moore said. Everyone was expected to survive, he said.

The powder blue Cadillac backed slowly into the group of parents and children buying snacks from a sidewalk vendor, and the crowd banged on his windows and screamed for him to stop, but not before some of the children were trapped under the car, witnesses said. More here.

There’s an age-restriction on when you can get a driver’s license. Should there be an age-restriction on how long you can keep it?