ADVISORY/AAA Foundation for Traffic Safety to Release New Study on Senior Driver Crashes and Consequences.Assignment Desks/Automotive Writers ADVISORY...for Wednesday Wednesday: see week. (February February: see month. 18) --(BUSINESS WIRE) AAA AAA: see American Automobile Association. (Triple A) A common single-cell battery used in a myriad of electronic devices of all variety. Like its double A (AA) cousin, it provides 1.5 volts of DC power. When used in series, the voltage is multiplied. Presents Solutions to Reducing Older Driver Crashes by Focusing on Improving Driver, Vehicle and Road Safety
WHAT: AAA Foundation for Traffic Safety will release a new study
that analyzes 25 years of police-level crash data from
nearly 4 million injury crashes. The study answers the
questions: Does your age really increase the likelihood
of dying in a crash? By how much and at what ages? How
is driver age related to fragility, illness, perceptual
lapses and left-turn crashes?
This study will provide new information about older
drivers. AAA will present solutions to reduce older driver
crashes and save lives.
WHY: People over 65 are the fastest-growing population in the
United States. By 2020, there will be more than 40 million
licensed drivers ages 65 and older.
WHO: Peter Kissinger, AAA Foundation for Traffic Safety,
President & CEO
Lindsay Griffin, Ph.D., Texas Transportation Institute
Bella Dinh-Zarr, Ph.D., AAA, Director of Traffic Safety
Policy
WHEN: Wednesday, February 18
10 a.m. (Eastern Standard Time)
WHERE: National Press Club--ZENGER ROOM
529 14th Street, NW,
Washington, D.C.
CONTACT: Fairley Washington, 202-638-3001
Mantill Williams, 202-942-2082, cell: 202-253-6419
Note: B-roll package will be available via satellite the day of the conference; coordinates coordinates of a point on a graph or grid map, the points on the horizontal and vertical axes which identify the location of the point on the graph/map. will be available shortly. |
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