Guilty, but no crime committed

To the editor:

I’m writing concerning an injustice to an elderly Wasilla resident. While driving on slick roads in Wasilla, this senior resident was pulled over by a Wasilla police officer.

She asked if he was all right, to which he replied, “yes, fine.” When she asked why he was driving so slowly, he stated it was slick and he wasn’t in a hurry. He was in the right-hand lane with no one behind him.

The injustice comes when he received, in the mail, an “order” from Juneau to go to the Department of Motor Vehicles and retake his written and driving exams. If that’s not enough, he had to have a doctor or psychologist evaluate his mental ability and send the results to the DMV (any idea what a doctor’s visit costs?). What about two tips to the DMV, one for each test?

I can’t help but wonder if the officer had spent more than a minute with this man, wouldn’t she have known that his mental status was fine? After all, she thought he was “stable” enough to allow him to drive away.

It comes down to “guilty, but no crime committed,” or just plain old senior discrimination.

Leola L. Meek

Wasilla