On-road driving evaluations: a potential tool for helping older adults drive safely longer.

Problem: This paper explores the potential use of on-road driving evaluations as a tool for helping older adults extend their safe driving years.

Method: Three separate research activities were carried out. The first was a national telephone survey of current and former older drivers.

Driver risk factors for sleep-related crashes.

A population-based case-control study was carried out to examine driver risk factors for sleep-related motor vehicle crashes. Cases included 312 drivers involved in recent North Carolina crashes and identified on police reports as asleep at the time of the crash and 155 drivers identified as fatigued. Controls were 529 drivers also involved in recent crashes but not identified as asleep or fatigued, and 407 drivers not involved in recent crashes.