The risk of being injured or killed in a motor vehicle crash increases as you age. Over the time, older drivers may experience a decline in their vision and cognitive functioning. These changes may affect some older adults’ driving abilities. For more information, visit http://www.cooper-law.com/ or email at whc@cooper-law.com. You can also call him at 914-357-8911/ ​212-385-1954/ ​718-619-4215 or Fax at (914) 428-4126.

1. Is Old Age Limiting Your Driving
Skills?
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2. The risk of being injured or killed in a motor vehicle crash
increases as you age. Over the time, older drivers may
experience a decline in their vision and cognitive
functioning. These changes may affect some older adults'
driving abilities.

3. Increased Crash Rates
• Statistics from The National Highway Traffic Safety
Administration 2008 show that fatal crash rates increase for
people aging 75 and above, per mile travelled.
• The rates notably rise after the age of 80.

4. Deaths
• Over 5,500 adults ages 65 and older were killed in vehicular
crashes in 2008.
• More than 183,000 were injured in the same time period.
• The average number of deaths among older adults per day
was 15 and 500 were injured.
• The majority of these vehicular deaths involved other
vehicles (69%).

5. Research Findings…
• Research on age-related driving concerns has shown that at
around the age of 65 drivers face an increased risk of being
involved in a vehicle crash.
• After the age of 75, the risk of driver fatality increases
sharply, because older drivers are more vulnerable to both
crash-related injury and death.

6. Research Findings
Three behavioral factors in particular may contribute to these
statistics:
• poor judgement in making left-hand turns;
• drifting within the traffic lane; and
• decreased ability to change behavior in response to an
unexpected or rapidly changing situation.

7. Complicated Issue if
• The victim is no longer working.
• If someone is retired and has no lost income, an insurance
company may not offer fair compensation.

8. Contact
Construction Accident attorney, Bronx, NY
Marvin A. Cooper, P.C.
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Fax: (914) 428-4126
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