This report addresses the effects of medical conditions and medications on the ability to operate a motor vehicle safely. It presents crash rates and crash odds ratios for broadly defined groups of drivers known to the Department of Motor Vehicles as having physical or mental conditions that potentially impair driving. It also reviews the scientific literature dealing with medical conditions and driving. Finally, the report briefly discusses a tiered assessment system under study by the department that holds promise for identifying and evaluating medically impaired drivers.
Medical Conditions and Other Factors in Driver Risk. Report to the Legislature of the State of California. In Accord with Senate Bill 335, Chapter 985, 2000 Legislative Session
2001
104 pages
Report
Keine Angabe
Englisch
Transportation Safety , Road Transportation , Transportation , Pharmacology & Pharmacological Chemistry , Driver physical fitness , Medical factors , Driver mental fitness , Highway safety , Accident risks , Impaired drivers , Driver disqualification , Research program , Accident research , Transportation studies , Handicapped drivers , Crashes , Accident rates , Safety research , Risk assessment , Dirver licensing , Medications and driving , Medically impaired drivers , Physically impaired drivers