Elderly drivers who have a history of violation are duty to test the actual car by renewing their license!If you fail, update NG!? What are the challenges of strengthening measures?

To strengthen measures for elderly drivers

　As the aging rate in Japan increases, the so -called “elderly driver problem” has become an issue for society as a whole.[Image] This is eg.。See images of various accidents (18 pieces) Under these circumstances, the National Police Agency recruits public comments on November 4, 2021, "Recruitment of opinions for government ordinances that revise a part of the Road Traffic Law Enforcement Ordinance" (period).: It has been revealed that it will start from November 5, 2021 to December 4, 2021).

Countermeasures for elderly drivers over 75 years old are strengthened

　Public comments are systems that require public opinions from the people due to the revision of the law. One of the points of attention in the revision of the Road Traffic Law (the Road Transportation Law of the 2nd Year 2nd Year) is to enhance and strengthen the measures for elderly drivers (elderly drivers) aged 75 and over (enforcement on May 13, 2022. ) Among them, the renewal system of the driver's license is reviewed, and those who have been 75 years old and over and have a certain violation are required to take the newly set "driving skills test" for the update. If the results of the test do not reach a certain standard, you will not be able to update your driver's license. As a countermeasure for elderly drivers, there has been a major change in the revision of the Road Traffic Law in March 2017, and if you are 70 to 74 years old, you have rationalized the elderly classes (classroom, driving aptitude tests, and actual car guidance) in 2 hours. 。 Furthermore, if you are 75 years or older, a cognitive function test is performed before the elderly class, and those who have a risk of dementia (first classification) are required to be diagnosed by a doctor, and the results can be operated. If the diagnosis result is obtained, it will be eligible for a driver's license if a three -hour elderly course with individual guidance or dementia is diagnosed. In addition, those who have a risk of decrease in cognitive function (second classification) for 3 hours, and those who do not have a risk of recognition function (third classification) take 2 -hour training and renew their driver's license. It is possible. In this revision, if you are 75 years old or older and have a certain violation in the past three years, you will be tested for a new cognitive function. The result was not the three categories so far, but one of the "no risk of dementia" and "there is a risk of dementia." In the case of "no risk of dementia", the elderly class will be taken, and "there is a risk of dementia" will be the same as the same license as the first classification. The most notable thing about this amendment is that if you have a certain violation history (violation) in the past three years, up to 160 days before your birthday, you will be required to inspect driving skills using actual vehicles. It would have been. A driving skill test is effectively a test of driving technology. In addition, "certain violation history (violation act)" means that signal ignoring, traffic violation, traffic violation, etc. Refers to violation of intersection safety duty, violation of safe driving duty, such as crossing pedestrian pedestrians, and using mobile phones. So how did the National Police Agency decide such a "certain violation history (violation)"? First, I thought from a statistical point of view. The serious accident rate of those who have some violations in the past three years among the drivers who have a normal license aged 75 and over are about 1.8 times. In addition, there is a statistical result of 2.1 times in a more serious accident. In addition, he extracted individual violations that leaded to serious accidents, excluding violations in which the death or severe accident was zero in the past five years. In addition, we have added a violation similar to that of the extracted violations. So what exactly is driving skills testing? Drive on the decided course, run by instruction speed (1 time), pause (2 times), right turn / left (twice each), signal passing (2 times), step riding (1 time), etc. , The scoring uses a deduction method from a perfect score of 100. The pass line has 70 or more for the first type license and 80 or more for the second type license. For example, if you do not stop until you enter the crosswalk beyond the pause line with a red light, you will get a 40 -point reduction and will fail one shot. Until now, the elderly classes have been kept within the range of actual vehicle guidance and individual guidance, but the driving function test introduced this time has a strict standard that is close to the exam for acquiring a new driver's license. It can be said. In addition, the driving function test can be taken as many times as many times as the renewal period expires.

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