Older Road User Conference

17 January 2018

A new one-day Older Road User Conference is to be held at the RAC Club, Pall Mall, on the 19th September 2018.

It is being jointly organised by Road Safety GB in partnership with New View Consultants and the RAC Foundation – and in association with the headline sponsor Satsafe.

The conference is aimed at road safety and public health practitioners, police and fire and rescue officers and highways engineers, the conference will set out to achieve the following goals:

• To identify key safety issues relating to older road users
• To showcase current interventions and initiatives being implemented by road safety practitioners
• To identify gaps in current provision
• To outline challenges and actions for road safety professionals, government and other stakeholders

The conference team is currently in the early stages of planning the agenda, but has identified the following themes to be addressed during the day:

• Roads and public transport for older road users
• Vehicles – design for older drivers
• Medical issues affecting older road users – cognitive decline, vision, dexterity, reactions etc
• Education, enforcement and ‘influencers’

For more information please click here.

To register please click here.