Driving a vehicle is a very important responsibility that requires skill and concentration.. And each decision behind the wheel can make the difference between life and death. For all these reasons, it is essential that future drivers prepare properly to assume this involvement with seriousness and rigor.
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Statistics show that older drivers have fewer accidents with injurieslargely thanks to your experience since they usually drive less. Also, they are less vulnerable in case of suffer an accident, and your risk of die in an accident it is greater.
According to data from the Mapfre Foundation -in collaboration with the General Directorate of Traffic (DGT)-, Drivers over 74 years of age have the highest death rate in traffic accidentswith 5.3 deaths per 100,000 registered drivers.
All these figures contrast with that of drivers between 30 and 74 years old.whose mortality rate does not exceed in any case the 1.9 per 100,000 motorists. Only new drivers, aged 18 to 20 (4.8 deaths per 100,000), and those aged between 21 and 24 (3.7 deaths per 100,000) present mortality rates approaching that of drivers over 74 years of age.
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Although it depends on several factors, the study shows that most drivers Stop driving between 72 and 77 years of age. In addition, there is a trend in which women over 65 years of age stop driving. more often than menregardless of your cognitive status.
“There comes a time when you have to stop. From the age of 75, the prevalence of cognitive impairment doubles every 5 years. One in five people between 80 and 85 years old has some degree of impairment similar to this type,” concludes Isabel Salaresearcher at the Neurology Service and the Memory Unit of the Hospital de la Santa Creu y Sant Pau in Barcelona.
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