Taxi drivers' accidents: How binocular vision problems are related to their rate and severity in terms of the number of victims

Association of main driver-dependent risk factors with the risk of causing a vehicle collision in Spain, 1990–1999

“…However, even in the adjusted analysis, visual and lower limb disabilities were slightly but significantly associated with the risk of causing a collision. Although the former association was also reported in some earlier studies (52)(53)(54), the causal link between visual defects and traffic crashes, as well as the need to change current visual standards for driving, are still an open debate (52,(55)(56)(57). With regard to limb disabilities, the wide range of variability in the specific nature of the handicap makes it difficult to offer a more specific analysis of our finding, which is in agreement with the association reported by Marottoli et al between foot abnormalities and risk of being involved in a traffic crash (58).…”

Amblyopia and Real-World Visuomotor Tasks

“…However, one notable epidemiological study reported a significantly higher incidence of crashes/year in taxi drivers with impaired binocularity than among normally-sighted individuals of the same profession (Maag et al, 1997). Estimating braking distance is, of course, just one many vision-dependent behaviours that contribute to safe driving; others include more dynamic and time-limited judgements that may be Touching or knocking over any one of the cones was scored as a failed run.…”

Risk Factors Contributing to Taxi Involved Crashes: A Case Study in Xi’an, China

“…As early as in 1997, Maag et al found that age had significant influence on the number and the severity of crashes and the taxi drivers aged less than 30 years were much easier to be involved and injured in crashes than the older group (Maag et al, 1997). In many studies, taxi crashes are found to be associated with the driver's age, type of license, employment status (full or part-time), satisfaction of pay, seat-belt usage, and other factors (La et al, 2013).…”

“…Given the significant effect of exposure to hazardous environments on the health of taxi drivers, some researchers have emphasized their importance on the occupationally related risk factors contributing to the occurrence of crashes, including fatigue (Christoforou et al, 2012), sleepiness (Firestone, Mihaere, Gander, 2009), vision damage (Maag et al, 1997), mental stress (Mann et al, 2010), duration of working hours 1 School of Highway, Chang'an University, Xi'an, China 2 CCCC First Highway Consultants Co. LTD, Xi'an, China * Corresponding author, e-mail: hityangdong@163.com 43(4), pp. 189-198, 2015 DOI: 10.3311/PPtr.7742 Creative Commons Attribution b research article P P Periodica Polytechnica Transportation Engineering (Hitosugi, 2012), etc.…”