Abstract
Taxicab drivers who reported an abnormal number of accidents in which they were struck from behind, when tested on a classical lab. reaction-time apparatus, were found to have a reaction pattern made up of slow initiation time and compensatingly fast movement time. Drivers with this perceptual motor pattern probably by a following driver, or in the headway of the following vehicle. However, drivers with such an atypical perception reaction had fewer accidents in their headway and therefor had lower overall accident rates.