THE PROVISION OF ROAD SAFETY INSTRUCTION FOR THE ELDERLY SAFETY ASPECTS TOGETHER WITH APPENDICES

A survey among road safety officers was carried out in 1978 by the County Road Safety Officers' Association of the County Surveyors' Society, together with TRRL. The RSO's who replied said that difficulties that the elderly experienced in coping with traffic arose mainly from physical disabilities, declining skill in making judgements, changes in the traffic environment and inappropriate attitudes. Most RSO's devote some resources to providing instruction or information for the elderly, but more for pedestrians than for drivers. Leaflets and talks were the most commonly used methods of communication. The amount of effort devoted to this by RSO's bore some relationship to the proportion of the population who are elderly and was more closely related to the proportion of elderly people among the casualties in their local authority areas.(a) (TRRL)

• Corporate Authors:

  Transport and Road Research Laboratory

  Road User Characterisitcs Division, Old Wokingham Road
  Crowthorne RG11 6AU, Berkshire,   England 
• Authors:
  • SHEPPARD, D
  • Valentine, S D
• Publication Date: 1979

Media Info

• Features: References; Tables;
• Pagination: 11 p.

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Aged; Aged drivers; Attitudes; Decision making; Driving; Education; Local government agencies; Motor skills; Pedestrians; Persons with disabilities; Printed publicity; Publicity; Safety; Safety programs; Traffic; Traffic safety education
• Geographic Terms: United Kingdom
• ITRD Terms: 2267: Attitude (psychol); 2248: Decision process; 1726: Disabled person; 2284: Education; 192: Local authority; 1746: Old people; 1733: Pedestrian; 8573: Publicity; 1665: Safety; 2205: Skill (road user); 755: Traffic; 8119: United Kingdom
• Subject Areas: Education and Training; Highways; Operations and Traffic Management; Pedestrians and Bicyclists; Safety and Human Factors; Society; I83: Accidents and the Human Factor;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 00319530
• Record Type: Publication
• Source Agency: Transport Research Laboratory
• Report/Paper Numbers: TRRL Report SR 533 Monograph, HS-029 072
• Files: HSL, ITRD, TRIS
• Created Date: Feb 6 1984 12:00AM