Driver Education

The Hartford website is a partner with AARP and gives tips on how family members can start conversations with older drivers regarding their health and ability to continue driving.

Older drivers are overinvolved in intersection crashes compared with younger drivers, but the reasons are not clearly understood. The purpose of the present study was to identify the factors that lead to older drivers' intersection crashes.

Overall, the presence of two or more passengers was found to negatively impact the probability that drivers 75 years of age or older were at fault in crashes.

 Knowing a senior driver’s driving history, medication, possible medical and physiological issues are all topics that are covered, as well as, additional measures that should be taken to prevent injury while driving.

NHTSA’s Technical Report on the long-term effect of ABS in passenger cars and LTVs.

In this paper we provide a global description in quantitative terms, of the developments in road safety research from the early 1900’s until 2010.

This brief paper describes the contents of the special issue and offers links to the specific content developed by AOTA/NHSTA that can be accessed free from the AOTA Older Drivers website.

In 2005, Psychiatric Times covered senior drivers on their website and the affect that prohibiting the elderly from driving can have on them. 

NHTSA’s Technical Report on the effectiveness of amber rear turn signals for reducing rear impacts.

Research from the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration shows that older drivers are among the safest. But eventually, we all retire from the road.