A slighty scary moment...

So we were on our way to school this morning and coming down to an intersection when an elderly woman pulled out of a gas station and stopped in the lane of oncoming traffic. I assumed this was to wait for me to let her in (which I was going to do). So I stopped to give her ample room even though she did NOT have a blinker on to indicate that she wanted to get over (which I absolutely hate, but whatever she was already in a traffic lane) but she sat there. So I waited thinking maybe she didn't realize I had stopped. Meanwhile, traffic from the oncoming direction (to her) was now coming at her...she still didn't move forcing people to have to veer around her into the far lane. As people in their cars are staring at her jaws open in disbelief she STILL continues to sit in the wrong lane, I have still left ample space for her to move to the correct side of the road thinking that she is going to realize it at some point...she doesn't. So at this point, I decided to go ahead and pull all the way up to the white line so the sensor would trip so that the 80 cars behind me would not have to sit all morning while we waited. As I went around her and looked, she was looking off towards the other direction, completely unaware that she was in oncoming traffic. The light turned green for us, we began to move forward, those of us on the correct side of the road and she on the incorrect side and turned into the lane almost into a minivan a few cars back from me. Of course I had the girls in the car with me and I am thinking, had she been coming at me head on from the wrong direction, what would I do? I am all for older adults retaining independence and I agree with my mother that our city doesn't provide adequate transportation for our elderly residents so they have to have a way to get around but there has to be a point where we draw a line. After the 86 year old woman that almost caused me to lose Nora when I was 8 months pregnant with her because she failed to recognize that she needed to yield on a green light, I am very leery of elderly drivers...especially when my children are involved. I just hope that at some point she realized what she did and stops to think that maybe she shouldn't be driving before she hurts herself or someone else.