Older women drivers: Fatal crashes in good conditions

Baker, Tara Kelley; Falb, Timothy; Voas, Robert B.; Lacey, J H

doi:10.1016/j.jsr.2003.09.012

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“…Firstly, older road users tend to make failure more in comparison with younger age groups, especially where the traffic condition is complicated 45), 84) such as at intersection 69), 73) . Secondly, regarding the situation of the failure, older people are more frequently involved in failure while making a turn 77), 78) , yielding 69), 74) , stopping 69), 73) , crossing 82) and in comparison with younger ones, elderly are tend to overrepresented in crashes under the "safe" conditions such as at low speed limits, in daylight, when traffic is low, good weather, and when the road is dry 81) . Thirdly, failures of elderly travelers made are frequent due to neurological and physical declines such as vision impairments 69), 82) , physical strength declines 41), 70) , physiological changes 60) , etc.…”

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“…British Columbia Older drivers, are overrepresented in crashes under the "safe" conditions, on roads with low speed limits, in daylight, when traffic is low when the weather is good, and when the roads are dry 81) . The U.S.…”

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“…Collisions with another road user represent only 30% of the injured cyclists in medical databases whereas up to 70% of the patients experienced loss of control, obstacle avoidance or near miss collisions The U.S. 92) ; Older drivers tend to hit fixed objects other than moving objects 81) .…”

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Traffic Safety of Elderly Road User: The Global Trend and the Japanese Case

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Along with population aging phenomenon, the problems of traffic safety of elderly people is increasingly worsening. Unsurprisingly, numerous studies on this issue have been carried out. However, a meta-review to find out global trends of this has not been observed. The goal of this study is to depict an overall picture of the literature based on a meta revision of well over one hundred related studies, in which the most common findings as well as shortcoming issues are identified. A further effort is made to validate those findings in the case of Japan. The results show that aged people are at a remarkably high risk of traffic accidents largely due to their higher frequency of failures, especially among non-automobile travelers. Their failures could be often resulted from the neurological and physical impairments because of the aging effects. Analyses made on statistical data of Japan showed that Japanese older drivers were not in the same situation as their counterparts in other nations, that is they did not have a higher frequency of failures compared to their young counterparts. Interestingly, improper steering and/or braking was the most common cause of failures which result in traffic accident among the elderly, compared to careless driving of all other age groups. From these findings, suggestions for future research to improve traffic safety situation of the elderly in general, and in particular Japanese context are proposed.

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Traffic Safety of Elderly Road User: The Global Trend and the Japanese Case

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“…The characteristics of collisions involving older drivers are different from those involving other age groups: they often occur in daylight, during good weather conditions and close to home (Baker et al, 2003;Ryan et al, 1998). In addition, older drivers are more likely than other age groups to be involved in "at-fault" motor vehicle collisions (MVCs) (Baldock et al, 2002;De Raedt and Ponjaert-Kristoffersen, 2001;Griffin, 2004;Stewart et al, 1999).…”

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Protocol for Candrive II/Ozcandrive, a multicentre prospective older driver cohort study

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Accident Analysis & Prevention

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“…Since older drivers-considered in this study as those who are older than 65 years-are a subgroup of the older population, an increase in the older population means an increase of older drivers (Baker et al 2003). According to past research studies, older drivers tend to be involved in more severe crashes compared to middle-aged drivers relative to their population and miles driven (McGwin and Brown 1999;Lyman et al 2002;Mercier et al 1997).…”

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