Published: February 24, 2012
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This week the National Highway Traffic Safety Board captured some headlines with their report on older drivers that offered more grim news: drivers over 65 are far more likely to die in crashes at intersections, and are far more likely to be involved in accidents in intersections. Even as overall rates of traffic fatalities decreased, those for older drivers increased. The solution? Better roads and safety precautions but basically nothing to be done about the deteriorating vision and reflexes of older drivers that contribute to this crashes.
Or can it? [continue reading…]
Published: November 9, 2010
The LA Times Reports on a new study published online — and soon available in the Journal of the American Geriatrics Society — which found that older drivers who completed 10 sessions of brain training had about half as many motor-vehicle collisions in which they were at fault than those who had no training. Curious? Continue reading
Source: LA Times
Published: October 31, 2007
Drivers aged 70 and older who receive classroom and behind-the-wheel training can significantly improve their driving performance in tests of knowledge and on-road skills, according to a study in the Journal of Gerontology by researchers at Yale School of Medicine. [continue reading…]
