Missing Elderly

I was driving down IH-10 the other day, as I have been doing quite frequently recently hopping from San Antonio to Houston, then back again, when I saw a sign that read "Missing Elderly" and then gave a description of his or her vehicle along with a license plate number.

It was at this time that I realized I see that sign a lot. On almost every drive, those billboards almost always have some sort of description of an old person that got lost.

I have a few questions about this:

First, is it just one elderly person that keeps getting lost, or is it a different one every time? They are always getting lost in a red Chevy SUV or something very similar. Last I checked, old people only drive cars from the 1960's. When did they start driving SUV's? That just doesn't seem safe. Their bones are very weak. If they were to get in a crash in some broke-ass American SUV they are pretty much dead.

Second, how do we keep losing these old people? Are they really even lost, or did some paranoid parent just wake up one day and call their parents and when they didn't pick up because they are out on a fishing trip they chose not to tell their adult child about, the person freaks out and calls the police. They can't all be senile old men who can't remember their way home. I mean, IH-10 is a straight line! Either you're going one way, or you're going the other. How hard is that? I know toddlers that can figure that shit out!

Third, why are people letting these old people drive if they can't find their way home on a two way road? If they can't figure out after 100 miles that they are going the wrong way, they probably shouldn't be driving. Unless they are escaping from an old people's home, then they have no excuse. If they are, then go for it! Drive like hell Missing Elderly! You run your ass off!

Shouldn't we be more worried about missing kids than missing old people?