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Elderly Driving, Featured, Quality of Life

Posted on April 16th, 2012

Written by Katherine Askew

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EMPOWERED ELDERLY DRIVERS

OLDER DRIVERS ARE GETTING SAFER
One of the most traumatic crisis of aging is having to stop driving. Increasingly, seniors are taking control of their driving futures. They want to be the ones who determine when it is time to hang up the keys.
A three-year study from Insurance Institute for Highway Safety shows that older drivers are becoming safer drivers. Between 1996 and 2008, seniors 75 and older showed declines of 45% or more in fatal accidents. This decline was… More