says a 75-year-old driver is three times more likely to die in a car crash than a 20-year-old (Mehren, n.p.). Distance traveled is also changing. From 1980 to 1989 the 65-and-older population increased their yearly distance traveled by 31 percent. Comparing data for 1983 and 1990, drivers aged 75 and older increased their distance traveled by 90 percent, the largest percentage increase in travel by any age group (Bedard, Stones, Guyatt and Hirdes, 751).
Frank Moretti of The Road Information Program (TRIP), a research group financed by road builders and other transportation groups, states that ôas the baby boom generation retires, there are going to be more and more older Americans behind the wheel. And itÆs going to become a more pressing safety issueö (Alvord & Bowles, n.p.). TRIP analyzed federal transportation statistics and concluded that the number of elderly drivers is higher than ever and those drivers are accounting for more fatal car
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