AAA Foundation for Traffic Safety to Release New Study on Senior Driver Crashes and Consequences
--AAA Presents Solutions to Reducing Older Driver Crashes by Focusing on Improving Driver, Vehicle and Road SafetyWHAT: AAA Foundation for Traffic Safety will release a new study that analyzes 25 years of police-level crash data from nearly 4 million injury crashes. The study answers the questions: Does your age really increase the likelihood of dying in a crash? By how much and at what ages? How is driver age related to fragility, illness, perceptual lapses and left-turn crashes? This study will provide new information about older drivers. AAA will present solutions to reduce older driver crashes and save lives. WHY: People over 65 are the fastest-growing population in the United States. By 2020, there will be more than 40 million licensed drivers ages 65 and older. WHO: Peter Kissinger, AAA Foundation for Traffic Safety, President & CEO Lindsay Griffin, Ph.D., Texas Transportation Institute Bella Dinh-Zarr, Ph.D., AAA, Director of Traffic Safety Policy WHEN: Wednesday, February 18 10 a.m. (Eastern Standard Time) WHERE: National Press Club--ZENGER ROOM 529 14th Street, NW, Washington, D.C.