Japan to Make Driving Tests Harder for some Older Motorists
The agency plans a direction-change maneuver and steeper penalties after a survey found high-risk drivers had about 2.8 times more accidents.
- On Thursday, Japan's National Police Agency announced plans to toughen mandatory skills tests for drivers aged 75 or older with violation histories to curb accidents caused by elderly motorists mistaking the accelerator for the brake.
- Around 18 per cent of fatal accidents last year involved drivers in this age group, prompting the NPA to implement "necessary measures" because high-risk drivers cause about 2.8 times more accidents than peers without violation histories.
- Proposed test revisions add a "direction change" component to verify precise pedal application; additionally, the scoring system will tighten, requiring a minimum passing score of 70, while penalties for encroaching into intersecting roads will double to 40 points.
- Officials aim to implement these regulatory changes in 2027, as the 2022 rollout of mandatory skills testing currently fails to adequately identify high-risk motorists despite requiring checks on five specific driving maneuvers.
- Deadly accidents involving older drivers remain a persistent issue in Japan, and an 85-year-old driver killed two pedestrians in Nagoya last May, underscoring the urgency of addressing pedal misuse among the country's aging population.
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In the face of a resurgence of fatal accidents involving older drivers, the Japanese authorities are stepping up driving skills tests Japan will step up driving tests for older drivers.
Japan will tighten driving tests for certain older drivers, in an attempt to reduce the number of accidents caused by people over 75 years of age that confuses, in particular, the brake acceleration, announced Thursday the Japanese police, quoted by AFP. The fatal accidents caused by drivers over 75 years of age are in ...
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Around 18 per cent of fatal accidents in Japan last year were caused by drivers over 75.
(Seoul = Yonhap News) Reporter Choi Yi-rak = The 'driving skills test (practical test)' conducted by the Japanese National Police Agency for elderly drivers aged 75 or older with a history of traffic violations...
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