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NHTSA's Traffic Safety Plan for Older Persons
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Abstract
Highway safety for older persons is an issue whose importance is increasing as America's population ages. Recognizing this, the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) developed a plan for a comprehensive program for improving the safety of older persons. This paper presents an overview of the plan, which envisions a balanced program covering both behavioral and vehicle countermeasures, with projects having the potential for both near term and longer term impacts on the issue. It presumes that the agency will work closely with the States and other groups concerned with the safety of older persons to gain their cooperation and support. The plan includes projects in problem identification, occupant protection, driver licensing, pedestrian safety, consumer information, and vehicle safety.
Citation
Luchter, S., "NHTSA's Traffic Safety Plan for Older Persons," SAE Technical Paper 881751, 1988, https://doi.org/10.4271/881751.Also In
References
- “Improving the Safety and Mobility of Older Persons” Transportation Research Board
- “Age Factor in Traffic Safety, A Focus on the Elderly Drivers” Cerrelli Ezio NHTSA Internal working paper
- “Risk of Fatality from Physical Trauma versus Sex and Age” Evans Leonard Journal of Trauma 28 3 March 1988
- “Traffic Victim Age and Gender Distributions” Partyka Susan C. “Papers on Victim's Age - Pedestrians and Occupants”, DOT HS 807 292 June 1988