1. Assessing Clinical Fitness-to-Drive Professor Priscilla
Harries Professor Carolyn Unsworth
2. Medical Fitness To Drive: towards a joined-up approach Prof
Desmond ONeill 23 June 2015 National Office for Traffic Medicine
RCPI/RSA
3. What is Traffic Medicine? A relatively new specialism
embracing all those disciplines, techniques, and methods aimed at
reducing death and injury inflicted by traffic crashes Also
enabling /rehabilitative in trying to ensure that transport
mobility is not hampered, or rendered unsafe, by remediable illness
or functional loss.
4. New area of scholarship ..never more than 1,000,000 cars
..limited by numbers that could be trained as chauffeurs! Gottlieb
Daimler, 1901
5. National differences, social constructs and habits
6. Sources Evidence-based literature Laberge-Nadeau, Trucks and
Diabetes, Diabetes Care, 2000;23:612-7 Existing guidelines
Austroads, CMA, DVLA, AMVA: FMCSA for Group 2 Consensus statements
American Diabetic Association, 2013 Grey literature TRB, AMA
7. Paradox Older drivers safest group We have learned much from
the misguided emphasis on their safety
8. a reduction of approximately 45% in the annual rate of
crashes per 1000 patients