Years ahead - road safety for seniors

Road safety for seniors

The National Roads and Motorists' Association Limited's Years Ahead educational program improves awareness among older drivers of safe driving practices and encourages them to monitor their own driving ability and, if necessary, seek professional advice.

The Years Ahead program is free and delivered by trained NRMA presenters from within the peer age group. The one hour presentation is available free to organised groups of older people.

All drivers, passengers and pedestrians are at risk every time they use our roads, and as people get older their risk of being involved in a crash can increase.

The program aims to:

• increase awareness of safe driving practices
• encourage all drivers to monitor their ability to drive
• encourage older drivers to seek advice from their doctors regarding their capacity to drive
• provide information about alternative transport options

Facts about Driving in the Years Ahead program

• is run by seniors for the benefit of seniors
• sessions last for approximately one hour
• sessions include a formal presentation supported by video as well as group discussion.

More about the Years Ahead program
The program is free and convenient: we come to your seniors group (groups are a minimum of 15). The informative and informal presentation features up-to-date statistics and video footage. Since 1999 over 1500 senior groups ( 35,000+ participants) have benefited from NRMA's one hour road safety awareness presentation

What we'll discuss

• Crash involvement
• Are older drivers more at risk?
• Road rules - are you up to date?
• Safe driving tips
• Lots of easy reminders and checks
• Vehicle safety - a really useful checklist
• Pedestrian safety - staying safe as a pedestrian
• Physical ?tness and driving - checking our ?tness so we can enjoy driving longer
• Mobility alternatives - planning for when you can no longer drive 

For further details or to make a booking for your group please phone (02) 8741 6642.

To view the  Older road users brochure, click here. (PDF 378KB/2 pages) 

NRMA Safer Driving Road Craft

Are you seeking objective assessment of driving skills or perhaps preparing for an aged driver licence test?

NRMA Safer Driving Road Craft sessions, which are part of NRMA's Safer Driving Programs, are with our friendly, experienced instructors who will help make you a better, safer driver.

Our first 90 minute assessment and coaching session is just $97.50 and following 1 hour sessions are $65.

For further information and bookings please call 1300 696 762 in New South Wales.