ACCIDENT AND VIOLATION EXPERIANCE OF OKLAHOMA DRIVERS WITH SELECTED CHRONIC MEDICAL CONDITIONS

THE DRIVING RECORDS OF 108 DIABETICS, 77 EPILEPTICS, 78 PERSONS WITH OTHER SPECIFIED NEUROLOGICAL CONDITIONS, AND 55 CONDITION, WHO WERE GRANTED DRIVER LICENSES AFTER BEING EVALUATED BY THE OKLAHOMA MEDICAL ADVISORY COMMITTEE IN 1969, WERE STUDIED, THE ACCIDENT RATES OF INDIVIDUALS IN THE SELECTED DISEASE CATEGORIES WERE COMPARED TO THE ACCIDENT RATES OF OKLAHOMA'S 1.6K MILLION LICENSED DRIVERS ACCORDING TO AGE, SEX, AND YEARS OF DRIVING EXPOSURE. THE VIOLATION RATES OF THE DISEASE GROUPS WERE COMPARED TO THE OVERALL DETERMINED THAT EPILEPTICS, DIABETICS, AND PERSONS WITH OTHER NEUROLOGICAL CONDITIONS HAVE HIGHER ACCIDENT AND VIOLATION RATES THAN LICENSED OKLAHOMA DRIVERS NOT KNOWN TO BE AFFECTED. OKLAHOMA DRIVERS DIAGNOSED AS SUFFERING FROM CARDIAC OR CIRCULATORY CONDITIONS, AS A GROUP, HAVE LOWER VIOLATION RATES AND SLIGHTLY HIGHER ACCIDENT RATES THAN DRIVERS NOT KNOWN TO BE AFFECTED.

• Corporate Authors:

  East Carolina University, Greenville

  College of Business
  Greenville, NC  United States  27858

  Oklahoma Department of Public Safety

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• Authors:
  • Davis, T G
  • Wehling, E H
• Publication Date: 1973

Media Info

• Serial:
  • American Association for Auto Medicine, Papers

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Crash causes; Crash rates; Crashes; Diseases and medical conditions; Driver performance; Drivers; Human characteristics; Neurology; Personnel performance; Physical fitness; Traffic regulations
• Uncontrolled Terms: Driver characteristics; Traffic laws
• Subject Areas: Highways; Law; Safety and Human Factors; Society;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 00224458
• Record Type: Publication
• Source Agency: National Highway Traffic Safety Administration
• Report/Paper Numbers: Monograph
• Files: TRIS, USDOT
• Created Date: Jul 16 1974 12:00AM