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When is it time to stop driving? Will mandatory assessments of older drivers make our roads safer?

  • Written by: Amie Hayley, Rebecca L. Cooper Al & Val Rosenstrauss Fellow and Senior Research Fellow, Swinburne University of Technology
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Australia is a nation of car owners with a rapidly ageing population. Drivers aged over 70 have nearly doubled in number in the past 20 years. The trend is the same for hospitalisations and fatalities due to crashes involving older drivers.

Ageing itself is not a barrier to safe driving. Even so, our ability to drive safely can become...

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