Road safety teams from five English regions have been recruiting drivers aged 65 and over to this study since December 2024. Recruitment will continue until the end of November 2025.

To date (April 2025), around 130 participants have taken part, over half of the 250 the researchers are aiming for. Participants have completed a questionnaire and a hazard perception quiz before taking a free mature driver assessment with an ADI. Following the driving assessment, they complete a follow-up questionnaire and hazard perception quiz.

Focus groups will be held with drivers to gain qualitative feedback on what they found most useful about the assessments and whether they plan to change their driving habits.

ADIs will complete questionnaires to provide their opinions about the standardised mature driving assessments, and will be interviewed for further feedback.

This presentation will share the interim findings and insights emerging from this evaluation project and discuss potential road safety benefits.

Dr Carol Hawley, Founder, CARGY Research Consultancy

Dr Carol Hawley is an academic research psychologist with over 30 years experience working in the fields of driving and road safety research both in the UK and internationally.

She chairs the Special Interest Group on Driving as part of the World Federation for Neurological Rehabilitation, and is a member of the Older Drivers Task Force and chairs its working group on older driver eyesight.

She has extensive research experience including evaluations of service delivery and organisation; fitness to drive; and attitudes and behaviours of older drivers. She has held substantive and then honorary contracts with the University of Warwick since 1985, and set up CARGY Research Consultancy in 2015, a small consultancy which specialises in driving related research.