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Paper Title:
The impact of age-related
functional impairments on the ability to cross roads safely
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Authors:
Jennie Oxley, Elfriede
Ihsen, Brian Fildes, Stuart Newstead, Judith Charlton
Abstract:
Older pedestrians are
over-represented in serious injury and fatal crashes. The task of
making gap judgements in order to cross roads safely may place high
demands on older pedestrians and it is possible that they are at
increased risk as a result of age-related sensory, cognitive and
physical limitations. This paper describes an experiment conduced
to investigate the effect of age and age-related changes in functional
performance on crossing decisions. The findings suggest that age
and age-related declines in physical, perceptual and cognitive function
are associated with an increased likelihood of making an incorrect
(unsafe) crossing decision. These findings have practical implications
for behavioural and engineering road safety countermeasures for
reducing older pedestrian crashes.
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