When you see him backing into vehicles and taking off, call the police. When you see him driving past school buses with their arms out, call the police. Let the police deal with it, legally.
True story: Years back I happened to be behind a pickup going down a rural road that was all over the place from shoulder to shoulder. Thankfully no one was coming because their would have been fatalities. Broad daylight, I thought the guy was drunk, so I called the local cops. While talking to the cops we came up to a four way stop sign at an intersection, and the guy hung a left without stopping, hit one of the stop signs dead on, shearing it off, and it was mounted by two 4x4s made of wood, one on each side, 2 or 3 feet apart. Thats kind of hard to miss and a hard hit, and the guy kept going without stopping into town while I was giving the police our locations. Then when the guy got to town he drove up into someone's yard and hit a tree. That stopped him. Just as I was getting out, the police drove up. Thankfully the fella wasn't hurt, but as it turned out, he too was aged, very aged, got confused, did not know where he was at, and was from across the state line from another state about 45 minutes away, and did not even know that he wasn't anywhere near his home. The police came back to me and told me that he was not at all drunk or under medication, but rather severely confused. The officer told me, "I feel bad for the old timer, after this he will surely never be able to drive agan, and then he will find himself confined, and then probably shrivel up and die". Sadly the officer was probably correct but in that one drive could have killed or severely hurt countless people.
I have absolutely nothing against aged or seasoned drivers. Nothing at all, bless their hearts. However, if there are dangerous drivers out there, no matter the reason, age, eyesight, whatever, get them off of the road before they kill or hurt themselves or some innocent bystander, or driver. Is nothing personal. Some nice people make lousy airplane pilots and locomotive engineers too, and they should not fly planes or operate locomotives anymore than blind people should take up careers as gun sharpshooter or deaf people give reviews of musical concerts...nothing personal.
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