New study: The risks at intersections for older drivers (PDF; 1 MB)
Source: Insurance Institute for Highway Safety

Studies going back decades reveal that older drivers are overrepresented in collisions at intersections.

A 1988 Transportation Research Board report concludes that “about half of the safety problems of senior drivers occur at intersections.” Similar findings have been published in study after study, including a 2006 Institute-sponsored report on the conditions and locations of older drivers’ crashes. The lead author of this report, D.R. Mayhew, says the extent of the overinvolvement of older drivers in collisions at intersections “generally increases with advancing age.”

Forty percent of the fatal collisions of people 70 and older, compared with 23 percent of the crashes of 35-54 year-olds, occur at intersections and involve other vehicles.

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