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In a study on the prevalence of attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) and its association with crash risk among older adult drivers, researchers at Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health found that older adult drivers with ADHD are at a significantly elevated crash risk compared with their counterparts without ADHD. Outcomes included hard- braking events, and self-reported traffic ticket events, and vehicular crashes.

Until now research on ADHD and driving safety was largely limited to children and young adults, and few studies assessed the association of ADHD with crash risk among older adults. The results are published online in JAMA Network Open.

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[–] [email protected] 35 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Oh great, is car insurance gonna start raising premiums for people with ADHD now too?

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 year ago

And due to the expectation that it's hereditary: sorry your daddy gave his medical information in the previous century so you can't be insured by our company unless your willing to tripple the rates because you could be aswell.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Yes and everyone else’s will stay exactly the same. It’s only fair, or something

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

No they are moving away from all that. Financial data and credit score are better predictors than actual driving history.

[–] pugsnroses77 21 points 1 year ago (1 children)

i have adhd and i hate driving. i wouldve stopped ages ago if i had a choice in the usa.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

don't know if I have adhd but god yes I hate even being a passenger.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I think I tend to hyperfocus while driving so I have that thing going for me which is nice.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

I specifically hyper focus at night and on roads with deer. My driving then is mint, like, I could be an instructor then.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

My partner has ADHD and it feels like my life is on the line every time I let him drive. He waits too long to stop, hard-braking frequently. He continues accelerating when the car in front of us is braking. Etc. It's terrifying.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Probably distracted driving.

[–] [email protected] 25 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

Yes perhaps some sort of disordered hyper activity in their brain causing a kind of distracted state or “deficit” if you will, in their attention

[–] [email protected] -2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

More about impulse control I think. Making the right decisions while driving, not getting overwhelmed.

[–] [email protected] -2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

More like hyper focusing on time contraints or a grocery list. ADHD can narrow attention very well.

[–] [email protected] -2 points 1 year ago

Is that the adhd or the amphetamines used to treat it?

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago

The number of drivers who don’t seem to realize they’re driving is too damn high. I can think of at least five examples of this I saw just this morning.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

This has been known for decades. Not sure what's new about this study.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

My doctor advised me of it in about 2002.

Here's a study from 2007 just super quick Google search:

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/17303170/

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

Consider my ass sourced and by no less than the man himself, Russell Barkley. Dudes been at it for so long so I wasn't too surprised. thank you!

[–] [email protected] -4 points 1 year ago
[–] [email protected] -5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

An attention-deficit makes you perform worse at a task that requires attention?

These scientists must have some great out of the box thinking to have pieced together this one.