References & Sources

Car safety tied to vision testing, clarity

Elderly drivers living in states without mandatory vision tests for diver’s license renewal are more likely to be involved in a fatal crash than elderly drivers in other states, and elderly people who have cataracts surgically removed are less likely to get into accidents than elderly cataract patients who don’t have the surgery.

References:

Shipp, M.D. 1999. The impact of state vision-testing policies on driving by seniors. The Research to Prevent Blindness Science Writers Seminar in Ophthalmology. September 26–29. Universal City, Calif.

Sources:

Melvin D. Shipp
University of Alabama, Birmingham
School of Optometry
1716 University Boulevard
Birmingham, AL 35294-0010

From Science News, Vol. 156, No. 16, October 16, 1999, p. 255. Copyright © 1999, Science Service.