Seeing is Believing
09/28/2012 | | accidents, car crashesm male drivers, cataract surgery and driving, catarat surgery, female drivers
The Friday File: In the year immediately following cataract surgery, motor-vehicle accidents involving men fell 16%, while the number of accidents involving women fell just 6.7%. Why? Women seem to restrict their driving as their vision deteriorates. Prior to surgery, men in the study drove an average of 84 miles a week, women 52. There was, however, no demonstrated improvement in a man’s willingness to stop and ask for directions.