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Evidence from many empirical studies is presented to indicate that: (1) Motor-vehicle accident rates per mile are higher in drivers with dementia than in normal older drivers. (2) Accident rates in normal young and older drivers are related to performance on information-processing measures of different components of attention. (3) This relationship is greatest for measures of the switching of selective attention. (4) Many of these same attentional functions, and particularly the switching of visual selective attention, are impaired in the early stages of Alzheimer's dementia and thus may contribute to increased accident risk. Further studies of cognitive and driving performance in older drivers are necessary to establish that the attentional impairments found in mild DAT contribute to increased accident risk.

VTI Rapport 372A, Part 3

English

v.p.

1991-9

VTI Rapport

Proceedings of the Conference, Strategic Highway Research Program and Traffic Safety on Two Continents, Part Three

Aged drivers; Attention lapses; Crash rates; Driver performance; Drivers; Mental disorders; Personnel performance

Highways; Safety and Human Factors; I83: Accidents and the Human Factor

TRIS, TRB

Dec 7 1993 12:00AM

• ATTENTIONAL AND COGNITIVE FACTORS IN PREDICTING OLDER DRIVER PROBLEMS
• DEMENTIA AND ROAD TEST PERFORMANCE
• ELDERLY PEOPLE AND MOBILE TELEPHONE USE - EFFECTS ON DRIVER BEHAVIOUR?
• GUIDELINES FOR RAILROAD PREEMPTION AT SIGNALIZED INTERSECTIONS
• MORE SAFETY THANKS TO GOOD ORIENTATION -- NOTHING WORKS WITHOUT TRAFFIC SIGNS
• OLD HANDS ON THE WHEEL: EXPOSURE, ACCIDENT EXPERIENCE AND PROBLEMS OF ELDERLY DRIVERS
• OLDER DRIVER: EMERGENT TRENDS IN THE EUROPEAN POLICY ENVIRONMENT
• OLDER DRIVERS HANDLING ROAD TRAFFIC INFORMATICS: DIVIDED ATTENTION IN A DYNAMIC DRIVING SIMULATOR
• OVERTAKING BEHAVIOUR ON SINGLE CARRIAGEWAY ROADS IN THE UNITED KINGDOM
• OVERTAKING BEHAVIOUR ON TWO-LANE RURAL ROADS
• PREDICTING ACCIDENT FREQUENCY FROM OLDER DRIVER CAPABILITIES: DEVELOPING A TESTABLE MODEL
• TIME AND SPACE CRITERIAS OF COLUMN FOLLOWING
• VISUAL FUNCTION AND EYE HEALTH: THEIR RELATIONSHIP TO OLDER DRIVER PROBLEMS