Drive a Black Car? You Are More Likely to Be involved in an emergency

A team from the Monash University in Australia has revealed that black cars are close to 50% more likely to be involved in accidents. The study published in the safety Science journal, which was reported to have comprised of data collected over a duration of 20 years has shown that a black car is the most perilous colour (or non-colour, since its black). It was also accomplished that the other, somewhat perilous coloured cars to drive colse to in are grey, silver, red and blue coloured cars. This is as the cars in this colours somehow blends in great with the background or the road, landscape or other cars. In short, a car with the colours mentioned above do not stand out in a sea of traffic and scenery.

The researchers looked straight through as many as 850,000 urgency date from the police for facts on the car, the time of the urgency and the type of accident. They somehow did not look at market vehicles, like taxis and delivery vans, even though I somehow think that these vehicles normally have a higher change of getting involved in an urgency as they ply the streets more than other citizen do.

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Anyway, the researchers, who have basically dedicated their lives to reviewing urgency after urgency have found that during daylight, black cars were almost 12% more likely to meet up with an urgency over white vehicles and if it goes dark, throughout dusk till dawn the chances of a black car meeting with an urgency rose to 47%.

So we now know that a black car is the most susceptible to getting involved in accidents. What are the safest colours to drive colse to in then? agreeing to the researchers, white, gold and yellow cars are the safest, but they also mentioned that orange may be even safer than white cars. This fact may be true as some dive watches have curious orange dials and harp on this fact.

Of course, the study goes on to say that while their findings propose that if citizen buy less black cars there could be less accidents, it may not be entirely true as they then say that if every person bought white cars this would then ensue in less colour discrepancy on the roads resulting in the vehicles unmistakably blending into one another. Imagine every car being white or yellow, now that won't do too. They go on and state that colour is a much less influential crash risk modifier than behavioural traits such as drink-driving, and speeding. They also then cease that 'It may be possible that uncomplicated solutions such as the use of daytime running lights or headlights could effectively negate the elevated risks of higher risk vehicle colours.'; which is what Audi, Porsche, Mercedes and almost all the big names have started using.

Having unmistakably driven and maintained a black 1981 Honda Civic for a long time (still own it actually) and then a silver car, I think that I had great luck driving the silver car as I remember being reversed into by other driver while driving the black car a long time ago (in a galaxy far, far away). The driver said she didn't see me as she slotted in reverse and just went level into the Civic's bumper and grill. Back then I was a lowly student, so it was painful if you know what I mean. I Never had that question in my silver car and nothing of that 'being invisible' kind of feeling while driving my current white coloured ride. Investigate like this makes you ponder a little.

Drive a Black Car? You Are More Likely to Be involved in an emergency