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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 Safety
WHAT:       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.