TY  - CONF
A1  - Jänsch, Michael
A1  - Otte, Dietmar
A1  - Pund, Bernd
T1  - Specific features of accidents caused by elderly traffic participants
N2  - With an ever rising human life expectancy the share of elderly people in society is constantly rising. This leads to the fact that at the same rate the share of people with age related diseases such as dementia and poor eyesight taking part in traffic will rise and therefore traffic accidents caused by this group of people due to the disease will play an ever greater role. This Situation will be among the future challenges of road safety work. At present this study displays specific characteristics of accidents caused by elderly car drivers (aged 65 or higher) based on the analysis of the German In-Depth Accident Study GIDAS. Herein almost 1000 elderly car drivers were identified as accident participants in the years 2008 to 2011. The focus of this study lies on identifying special types of accidents which are caused by elderly drivers and on characterizing these types with the information gathered on scene and by interviewing the participants. The main evidence analyzed is the knowledge about the accident locality, the trajectories of the participants as well as the reasons for the occurrence of the accidents. Furthermore personal information such as the personal condition before the accident and driving purposes is used to identify patterns of contributing circumstances for accidents caused by elderly traffic participants.
KW  - Alte Leute
KW  - Analyse (Math)
KW  - Deutschland
KW  - Fahrer
KW  - Konferenz
KW  - Statistik
KW  - Unfall
KW  - Ursache
KW  - Verkehrsteilnehmer
KW  - Accident
KW  - Analysis (math)
KW  - Cause
KW  - Conference
KW  - Driver
KW  - Germany
KW  - Old people
KW  - Road user
KW  - Statistics
Y1  - 2013
UR  - https://bast.opus.hbz-nrw.de/frontdoor/index/index/docId/641
UR  - https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:hbz:opus-bast-6416
N1  - Weiterhin beteiligt: TÜV, Technische Überwachung Hessen GmbH
ER  -