ACCIDENT RATES OF DRIVERS WITH BIOPTIC TELESCOPIC LENSES

The major purpose of this study was to determine the accident rate of drivers with bioptic telescopic lenses ("bioptic drivers") in California. The bioptic driver group consisted of 229 drivers, while a randomly selected comparison sample consisted of 21,064 drivers. The 2-year total and fatal/injury accident rates of the bioptic group were normalized to the age/sex distribution of the comparison sample. Normalized accident rates for bioptic drivers were significantly greater than the corresponding rates for comparison drivers. The study also included an analysis of the driving records of bioptic drivers prior and subsequent to acquisition of telescopic lenses and an analysis of total and fatal/injury accidents for bioptic and comparison drivers with valid licenses only. It was recommended that California continue to license bioptic drivers, but with greater use of license restriction and more stringent post-licensing control.

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  National Safety Council

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• Authors:
  • Janke, M K
• Publication Date: 1983

Media Info

• Pagination: p. 159-165
• Serial:
  • Journal of Safety Research
  • Volume: 14
  • Issue Number: 4
  • Publisher: Elsevier
  • ISSN: 0022-4375
  • Serial URL: http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/journal/00224375

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Crash rates; Diseases and medical conditions; Driver licensing; Driver records; Drivers; Lenses (Optics); Vision; Visually impaired persons
• Uncontrolled Terms: Bioptic telescopic lenses
• Geographic Terms: California
• Old TRIS Terms: Driver vision
• Subject Areas: Highways; Safety and Human Factors; I81: Accident Statistics; I83: Accidents and the Human Factor;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 00390891
• Record Type: Publication
• Source Agency: National Highway Traffic Safety Administration
• Report/Paper Numbers: HS-036 894
• Files: HSL, TRIS, USDOT
• Created Date: Nov 30 1984 12:00AM