Driving Skills/Ability

Located in Indiana, Senior Driving was started to provide transportation services to seniors to help them remain independent and safe.

Older drivers are primarily overinvolved in crashes at intersections, and failure to attend to regions that contain relevant information about potential hazards is a major contributor to this problem.

The objective of this study was to evaluate how UFOV impairments affect time-to-contact estimates in elderly drivers deciding when to make a left turn across oncoming traffic.

RAND Corporation’s website details the risks of older drivers and traffic safety. Information regarding relative risk, driving frequency and fragility are all covered topics,including a compparison of older driver risk to younger drivers.

This paper was done to assess visual deterioration with aging and how to deal with issues in visual functions and driving.

This report explores the health and quality-of-life impacts of crashes among older (65+) and middle-aged (40-55) occupants.

International Association of Chiefs of Police has a pocket card on the ten warning signs a driver may have with Alzheimer’s Disease and ten steps on how to interact with someone that may have Alzheimer’s Disease. 

Florida’s Driver Medical Referral Visor Card which mentions the observations and indicators and what to look for in a potential medical condition that affects safe driving.

A video of their process of referring Maryland drivers to the DMV.

Maryland’s Red Flag tool.