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Conference looks at ADHD and dangerous driving Last updated Jun 7 2005 12:47 PM ADT
CBC News FREDERICTON – Researchers at a national road safety conference in Fredericton are trying to figure out why people with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder are more likely to drive dangerously.
Christine Wickens, a graduate student from York University in Toronto, said there hasn't been enough study of the problem. But based on the available research, she said it's clear that people with ADHD get into more trouble on the road than other drivers.
"ADHD drivers tend to be involved in more collisions. They have more traffic citations, particularly for speeding. They're more likely to have had their licences revoked and to drive without a licence."
Wickens said people with ADHD are also more likely to get arrested for driving under the influence of alcohol.
"What we're interested in really, is trying to understand why that's happening and why ADHD drivers tend to engage in more risky driving behaviour."
Wickens said there are no clear answers as to why people with ADHD are more likely to be a hazard on the road, but she says the disability could be a factor in several ways.
"Whether or not it's increased inattention or the ability to monitor the driving situation, whether it's perceptual difficulties, whether it's their impulsiveness and their inability to make decisions in the roadway environment … we don't know what it is."
Wickens says the researchers are compiling more information on the driving habits of people with ADHD, hoping it leads to some possible solutions.
For example, she says it's possible that people with ADHD could reduce their accident rate if they stopped playing music in their cars and limited all other forms of distraction.
Special training could also help. Wickens says she's working on an intensive driver training course to help people with ADHD drive more carefully.
Who the hell is the National Road Safety Council?
I just wondered if some of its members are from the New Brunswick Human Rights Commission.
I didn’t know any of this so call conference until this morning when I phoned CFBC Talk of the Town.
The host Rick Mantle asked me if I heard the latest news from Fredericton? He read some notes to me over the air and asked me for my views?
I did tell the audience that when I was younger? I had my share of accidents but we must not forget that in those days nobody knew of ADHD.
During the frigate program, I would travel to Moncton and I had no patience whatsoever to follow those trucks. I am very surprised that I didn’t get killed.
The stupid comments made at this conference that people with ADHD shouldn’t be listening to music because they’re easily distracted is a bunch of HOGWASH!!!
They insisted that people with ADHD are distracted very easily!
Hey?? If I see a woman walking around half naked? Will this distract me? Of course it will!
But I sure won’t cause an accident. I haven’t driven a vehicle in 4 years and I don’t care what those racists members of the New Brunswick told the Government that people with ADHD cannot drive a vehicle.
People with true ADHD can traveled in a vehicle all across the country but we educate ourselves that we must take our time.
The way this Conference made it sound? They made us look like fools and this is not right at all!
I am going to get to the bottom of this because this can be a disastrous for our future kids with ADHD! Thank God that I wasn’t in the Capital because surely all hell would have broke loose. Who are those people serving in this so call board?
I will let you know during the next few days. I’m still in Saint John and me and Tim Smith took a lot of nice pictures and we will used them during the next few weeks!
Just to give you an idea what kind of pictures we took? Take a close look at these photos.
This is the office of the Irving Telegraph Journal! You can tell that the paper is going to shut down in the near future because look at the sign.
It’s all destroyed and the Irvings don’t have the money to fixe it! The pictures has the same reputation as the newspaper. The telegraph Journal should have more pride for our tourists. Every City proudly show their newspapers but not this one! I wonder why?
Michael Jackson will be found not guilty and will be found guilty on a minor charge therefore he will be on strict probation for two years.
I am in a big hurry so please excuse the style and grammar of this blog because I wrote it very fast! Bye bye
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Nice picture Charlie you look like yourself
Hey??? I can take it and I can dish it!!! Better than our Premier!!! I do have a sense of ha ha!!...lol...
Didn't anyone ever tell you that if you cross your eyes too often that they might get stuck...LOl, Thats all that you need!
What happened to the Irving motto of Pride in our company/Pride in our community?A drive across the causeway disproves that statement all to hell everyday of the week - The prophets from the paper must be being shipped down the street to the big house?
To the caller on talk of the town this morning (CFBC),I think the name change of the paper as you have suggested must be on it's way I see the old sign is already coming down.
I thought you were in favour of the truth, Charles?
That news story is about actual research, facts that cannot be denied. It doesn't say that people with ADHD are fools, or that they're "close to mental retardation", as you like to say. It says they get more tickets than other drivers, and they have more car accidents. Facts. Period. The researcher even says they don't know why, and they want to learn more.
So what's your problem?
It's an issue because you can well imagine that insurance companies will use that as an excuse to raise rates of certain people.
It would also be interesting to find out whether the problem is due to the disorder or the medication used to treat it. The advice about music and other internal distractions makes sense for everybody, not just ADD sufferers.
It would seem that the Irving corporation just loves to pull crap like this, the Telegraph Journal has been around since I can remember and I cannot forthe life orf me understand why this publication is shutting down. It has been a great source of information and the news from what I know has been well received. I think that it is a real shame that one of our traditional news publications is going to be history, if it has not gone that way already. I think It is going to be missed by a lot of New Brunswickers.
Mike...Mike..Mike...The telegraph Journal is not closing its doors!!!! This was just a blog complaining about the sign on the building. It's half destroyed!!!! But then again? In the future, I see all the Irvings newspapers in one and call it the Irving news!!!!
I was told a couple of years ago and I shouldn't tell my insurance company that I have ADHD because my insurance rate would go way up!!!! This is not right and those people at the conference had no rights to say what they told the news media but then again? Thye have the huge support of those racist members of the New Brunswick Human Rights Commission!!! People with ADHD are being force on Ritalin as a child but the Lord Government don't care. Even if 10,000 people signed a petition asking the Government to do a study on the issue of Ritalin. The drugging and killing of our children will continue till after the next Provincial election!!!!
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