It reveals some older drivers' life style: driving for single purpose around home, such as farming, social events, shopping in convenient store, etc; relying on other drivers or other transportation modes while going to a further destination.
Today she plays an active role in her community and talks animatedly about community drivers, "life-saving" coffee mornings and visits to the silver screen cinema group – facilitated by an innovative project which is now attracting attention at the highest levels of government and the NHS.
I asked the taxi driver why life looked so normal, and he responded matter-of-factly, "We got too used to living this life.
But he is not necessarily a pickup driver for life.
"I'm a back-seat driver in life.
A paucity of emergency crew meant that sometimes it was left to other drivers to save a driver's life.
The children keep track of a driver's life on the road.
Questions remain as to what can be done to improve the margin of safety — the cushion of reaction time that might save a driver's life.
Mohammad Sikder, a baker turned cabby from Bangladesh who supports a family of six, had resolved to escape the stresses of a taxi driver's life.
Local news crews have struggled heroically to report on the disaster; one newscaster saved a truck driver's life on air.
