Driving style features emergency and accident - free drivers

The article presents the results of empirical research of driving style characteristics by emergency drivers (having in the experience an accident by his own fault) and accident-free drivers. Under driving style is meant the typical, well-established (as usual peculiar) features of the road behavior of the driver, as well as a system of ways and means to implement their activities, typical for the driver emotional experience and interaction with other road users, to prejudge the level of security (accident) of the driver (on one hand) and defined with some of stable and variable factors (on the other hand). The main instrument used questionnaire "Driving style", designed on the basis of a structured approach to the assessment of driving style. Questionnaire to evaluate characteristics such as the risk of driving style, safety, planning, impulsivity, attitudes toward safety features, driving culture, confidence during parking. The comparison was conducted in the general group and separately in groups of professional drivers (employees) and amateur drivers (non-working or self-employed)). The difference between emergency (having the experience of the accident by his own fault) and accident-free drivers in professional sub-group was observed only for such characteristic driving style as safety-risk: accident-free drivers observe the prescribed traffic rules more strictly. In the group of motor - car enthusiasts revealed significant differences were found in three characteristics: risk-safety, driving culture and confidence during parking. Crash drivers less follow the traffic rules, have a higher confidence during parking and increasingly use signs of road etiquette.