Citation

Janke MK. J. Saf. Res. 1983; 14(4): 159-165.

Copyright

(Copyright © 1983, U.S. National Safety Council, Publisher Elsevier Publishing)

DOI

10.1016/0022-4375(83)90043-9

PMID

unavailable

Abstract

The major purpose of this study was to determine the accident rate of drivers with bioptic telescopic lenses ("bioptic drivers") in California. The bioptic driver group consisted of 229 drivers, while a randomly selected comparison sample consisted of 21,064 drivers. The 2-year total and fatal/injury accident rates of the bioptic group were normalized to the age/sex distribution of the comparison sample. Normalized accident rates for bioptic drivers were significantly greater than the corresponding rates for comparison drivers. The study also included an analysis of the driving records of bioptic drivers prior and subsequent to acquisition of telescopic lenses and an analysis of total and fatal/injury accidents for bioptic and comparison drivers with valid licenses only. It was recommended that California continue to license bioptic drivers, but with greater use of license restrictions and more stringent post-licensing control.

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