Senior Safety and Mobility - AAA Centers of Excellence

CENTER OVERVIEW: SENIOR SAFETY AND MOBILITY

Contrary to conventional wisdom, older drivers as a group pose less risk to other road users than just about anyone. Older drivers are more likely to have functional limitations, or may require medications that negatively impact safe driving, and yet many recognize their limitations and self-regulate their driving. In 2005, people 65 and older accounted for about 15 percent of all licensed drivers in the United States but comprised only about 7 percent of all drivers involved in police-reported crashes. However, while seniors are involved in fewer crashes, their fatality rates are on par with those of teenagers, because older drivers are more likely to be seriously injured or killed in even a low- to moderate-severity crash.

SENIOR SAFETY AND MOBILITY NEWS

June 16, 2009 Senior Driver Licensing Policies

Since 2007, the AAA Foundation has worked to compile current knowledge regarding senior driver screening, assessment and license renewal policies across the entire United States. This extensive work has come together in an exciting new database (http://lpp.seniordrivers.org ...

February 8, 2009 Are Older Drivers High-Risk Drivers?

It is often said that older drivers are the most dangerous drivers on the road. This is true only in regards to their own risk of death, according to a recent study by the AAA Foundation for Traffic Safety. Teenage ...

November 10, 2008 Missouri Law Ensures Safe Driving in Elderly

A Missouri state law designed to help families, doctors and law enforcement officials prevent unsafe motorists from continuing to drive is working effectively and should serve as a model for the nation, according to a comprehensive study released today by ...

July 15, 2008 Providing Solutions for Seniors, and their Families

For more than two decades, the AAA Foundation has been at the forefront in recognizing aging and mobility as a serious safety and health issue.

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SENIOR SAFETY AND MOBILITY NAVIGATION

Improving policies and options for keeping seniors safe, and safely mobile.

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TRAFFIC FACT

In two-vehicle crashes with an older driver and a younger driver, the vehicle driven by the older person was more than twice as likely to be the one that was struck.

NHSTA Senior Driving Report

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