NTSB TO HOLD HEARING ON MEDICAL OVERSIGHT OF NON-COMMERCIAL DRIVERS

The National Transportation Safety Board will hold a two day public hearing on medical oversight of non-commercial drivers. The impetus for this hearing is a series of fatal accidents that involved drivers with potentially impairing or debilitating medical conditions. Details are:

Dates:   March 18th and 19th

Time:   8:00 a.m. (both days)

Location:   NTSB Board Room and Conference Center, 429 L’Enfant Plaza, S.W., Washington, D.C.

The two-day hearing will explore the following issues:

• Background and research into potentially impairing or debilitating medical conditions that might affect an individual’s ability to drive.
• Current procedures for collecting and routing information on medically high-risk drivers to licensing authorities and medical review boards.
• The effectiveness of State oversight of licensed drivers who suffer from potentially impairing or debilitating medical conditions.
• Programs that aid doctors, law enforcement, licensing authorities, and others in reporting, managing, or counseling medically high-risk drivers.
• Programs that attempt to reduce incidences of medically related accidents through education and other proactive measures.
• Public policy considerations in the design and implementation of driver medical oversight programs.

Directions to the Board Room: Front Door located on Lower 10th Street, directly below L’Enfant Plaza. From Metro, exit L’Enfant Plaza station at 9th and D streets escalator, walk through shopping mall, at CVS store take escalator down one level. Board Room will be to your left.

NTSB Press Contact:
Keith Holloway
(202) 314-6100