A 79-year-old driver crashed into two cars and a light pole in New York, killing another driver and injuring seven other individuals

That’ll never happen, because we don’t give voting day as a holiday (should be mandatory, imo), and old (retired) people ALWAYS have the time to vote, and moreover, our legislature is largely a gerontocracy. The way things are structured in the US now makes this effectively a non-starter, despite the fact that it’s clearly a good and necessary idea.