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Clinical Rehabilitation, Vol. 20, No. 5, 445-450 (2006)
DOI: 10.1191/0269215506cr957oa
© 2006 SAGE Publications

Driving experiences of disabled drivers

R S Prasad

J Hunter

J Hanley

Scottish Driving Assessment Service, Rehabilitation Medicine Directorate, Astley Ainslie Hospital, Grange Loan, Edinburgh, UK

Objective: To study the influence of non-standard controls on return to driving after disability, including prevalence of accidents/retraining difficulties.

Design: Postal questionnaires sent within two years of assessment to 972 disabled drivers seen over a three-year period.

Setting: Scottish Driving Assessment Service.

Subjects: All patients considered capable of driving after assessment during the study period.

Results: Five hundred and eighty-nine people (61%) replied who were representative of the total population (mean age 55 years, range 19-87); 73% were male and 70% were disabled for up to two years. Overall 79% respondents had returned to driving (highest reported success with standard manual car (86%) and lowest using left foot to accelerate and brake (66%) ({chi}2 = 16.6, P = 0.005)). A significantly higher proportion of the 30 patients (6.5%) admitting to accidents and 25 (5.4%) to problems with retraining were using non-standard driving techniques, especially the use of hand controls.

Conclusion: Disabled drivers returning to drive using non-familiar controls had lower success and a higher proportion of accidents and/or problems with retraining than people using conventional controls. If confirmed in larger studies this may have implications for policy-makers as well as specialist practitioners.


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