Last year, officials urged ministers to raise the mandatory licence renewal age from 70 to 80 to ease pressure on administration and reduce costs, even though RAC research suggests that one in 10 of elderly motorists are not fit to drive.
It's hard for me to argue that 23% effectiveness and mandatory yearly renewal rises to the level of what I think of as a "vaccine".
More research is needed to understand the mechanisms by which the reductions in fatal crashes associated with mandatory in-person renewal and vision testing outside of mandatory in-person renewal come about.
The average of the rates predicted with mandatory in-person renewal divided by the average of the rates predicted without mandatory in-person renewal is the aRR for mandatory in-person renewal.
Unlike previous studies, however, the current study distinguished between vision testing required as a component of mandatory in-person renewal versus vision testing required in the absence of mandatory in-person license renewal.
For the county's estimated 1,200 licensed landscapers, participation in one of these four-hour, county-sponsored sessions administered by the Cornell Cooperative Extension is mandatory for license renewal.
For example, the effect of mandatory in-person renewal was estimated as follows.
The rates predicted with and without mandatory in-person renewal, respectively, were then averaged across all state-quarters.
Mandatory in-person renewal, vision tests, knowledge tests, and on-road driving tests were modeled as the proportion of all renewals at which each applied (0 = never, 1/3 = every third renewal, 1/2 = every other renewal, 1 = every renewal).
