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Article: Down the Road: Surprising new research shows fatal crashes down for old drivers
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- Oakland Tribune
- Article date:
- January 30, 2009
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BY CHERYL JENSEN
motor matters
Baby boomers don't have to worry quite so much about their
parents' driving -- or their own. Older drivers seem to be better
drivers than previously thought. And if they are a danger to anyone,
it is to themselves or their older passengers, according to a new
study.
Despite older drivers increasingly taking to the roads, fewer
died in crashes or were involved in fatal collisions during the
period 1997 through 2006 than in prior periods dating back to the
1980s, according to a new Insurance Institute for Highway Safety
study. The data researchers analyzed came from the National Highway
Traffic Safety Administration's Fatality Analysis Reporting System,
a census ...