A just-released Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) report shows “ … reasons why older adults limit, or self-restrict, their driving during certain conditions (e.g., at night or in bad weather) and reasons why some older adults stop driving altogether.”

There are Senior Safe Driving programs offered by a number of organizations in Pennsylvania. Not only do the programs provide reviewing the essential rules of the road in the Commonwealth, safety guides and driving tips, completion of the program earns a state-mandated five percent discount on automobile insurance premiums.

One program provider is Seniors for Safe Driving; their next Lancaster County program is slated for Tuesday and Wednesday, June 28 and 29 from 12:30 pm to 4:30 pm at Trinity Evangelical Church in Lititz. For more information and to register click here.

“There has been a change in Pennsylvania Law as it relates to the Senior Driver Improvement Classes and your automobile insurance discounts. If you are over 55 years of age and have successfully completed a Senior Education Program in the past, you only have to attend a one day refresher course to renew your insurance discount. If you have never participated in a Senior Driver Improvement Program in the past, you must attend a two day seminar to earn your automobile insurance discount. The insurance discount is 5% of total premium for a period of three years.”