18 April 2024

Adjusting Your Radio? – Be Careful its a Major Cause of Car Crashes

Men are twice as likely to crash their cars, figures show, as they are more easily distracted by kissing or adjusting the car radio while driving.

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Adjusting yorcar radio, or aircoditioing is the 7th most often declared reason for car accidents.**

Way back in 2013 one in 10 men who have been involved in a car accident admitted, in a study by Santander car insurance, the fault was theirs due to their concentration waning. This is compared to one in 20 women who admit to the same behaviour.

The survey revealed three in 10 men and a fifth of women have reported having a near miss car accident as the result of a distraction.

Seventy six percent in the survey admit to adjusting the car stereo while driving, while others admitted eating or drinking soft drinks while driving were the distractions most likely to cause an accident.

And this behaviour does not seem to have changed!

Much more recently the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, or NHTSA reported its 10 ten distractions in terms of road accident caused and they are as follows

1. Being lost in thought
2. Use of a mobile phone
3. Looking at something outside the car
4. Looking at someone inside the car
5. Using a device other than your mobile phone like reading or writing on a tablet
6. Eating or drinking
7. Adjusting your radio or the A/C
8. Using cruise control, GPS or similar function
9. Reaching for objects
10. Smoking

It goes without saying that concentrating on the road ahead is essential and that drivers should make this a prime priority regardless of how ‘important' their other tasks may be.

The other thing that is also of utmost importance is to have a good quality car insurance policy such as those available by comparing car insurance with MoneyMaxim. That would mean that even in the wort eventuality you would still protected financially from your distraction.