Organisation: University of Nottingham Transport Research
Date uploaded: 21st March 2013
Date published/launched: November 2009
The main findings were:
• More than 65% of the accidents examined involved driving at excessive speed, a driver in excess of the legal alcohol limit, or the failure to wear a seat belt by a fatality, or some combination of these.
• Young drivers have the great majority of their accidents by losing control on bends or curves, typically at night in rural areas and/or while driving for ‘leisure’ purposes. These accidents show high levels of speeding, alcohol involvement and recklessness.
• Older drivers had fewer accidents, but those fatalities they were involved in tended to involve misjudgement and perceptual errors in ‘right of way’ collisions, typically in the daytime on rural rather than urban roads. Blameworthy right of way errors were notably high for drivers aged over 65 years, as a proportion of total fatal accidents in that age group.
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Thank you for this. I found it depressing (seatbelt use) but useful! This will become part of our intellegence and used to help formulate how we target our user groups, especially in-car and older drivers.