More seriously injured: 19% of those killed in road accidents and 20% of those seriously injured are aged 65 and over - according to the "Yearbook of +65s in Israel" for 2021, published by the Myers-JDC-Brookdale Institute - the Institute for Applied Social Research.
The yearbook provides up-to-date data to make decisions to improve services for senior citizens, and monitors trends in the changing world of old age.
For example, in 2019, 2,532 people aged 65 and over were injured in road accidents.
By the way, both among those aged 65 and over and among those aged 75 and over, men are injured in road accidents more than women.
In 2019, there were about 2,505 accidents involving drivers aged 65 and over - 48 of them were fatal and another 372 of them were serious accidents.
Dr. Yitzhak Shnor, an expert researcher at the Myers-JDC-Brookdale Institute, said: "Although the proportion of those aged 65 and over in all casualties is similar to their share of the population, the rate of deaths and injuries among them is higher than their share of the population.
"Furthermore, nearly half of the deaths of elderly people in road accidents happened while they were pedestrians."
He said, "The same harm to a young person and an older person can be much more severe to an older person. However, mobility and the use of transportation are important means of maintaining independence and functioning in old age. We hope these data will be available to the general public and decision makers." In Israel. "
