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PostPosted: Sun Nov 19, 2006 16:46 
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The largest number of drivers who have been involved in a road accident this year is from the Midlands.

Nationally, 17 to 24-year-olds are the most at risk from crashes, according to figures released by car insurance providers Sainsbury's Bank.

The figures showed that 4% of motorists in Britain were involved in a road accident between April and September, with the figure rising to 6% for drivers in the Midlands.


As many as 12% of 17-24 year olds said they had been involved in an accident in this six-month period - well above the average for other age groups.

Scotland appears to be the "safest" area - with only 2% of Scottish drivers having accidents in April-September this year.

These are the percentages of motorists in each area involved a car accident over the past six months:

Midlands - 6%
Wales & West - 5%
North East/Yorks/Humber - 4%
Greater London - 4%
North West - 4%
South East/East Anglia - 3%
Scotland - 2%

BRITAIN - 4%


I failed to find the survey via Google, but I did find this which might be of interest:

MOTORISTS WARNED OF THE DANGERS OF BAD DRIVING HABITS

It's interesting to see what gets a mention at #8 in the table....
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Number three is 'excessive speeding' which is kind of confusing, do they mean speeding far too often?
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Interesting how that Sainsbury survey says there were 199K accidents in 2005 and that there are 30M motorists.

My maths gets that to 0.66% - so how does that stack up with 4% being involved in an accident in a 6 month period.... :roll:

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Graeme wrote:
Interesting how that Sainsbury survey says there were 199K accidents in 2005 and that there are 30M motorists.

My maths gets that to 0.66% - so how does that stack up with 4% being involved in an accident in a 6 month period.... :roll:


The 199K figure is for injury crashes. The 4% is for all crashes, including 'damage-onlys'. Damage onlys are around ten times more common than injury crashes.

There are now 34million licenced drivers, so 199K injury crashes means 1 caused for every 170 driver-years (assuming each crash is caused by one driver). Since some crashes are caused by non-drivers (pedestrians etc) the true figure is even better.

It's also worth noting that this includes injury crashes caused by highly risky groups (stolen vehicles for example.) The risk value for the median driver is at least five times lower even than this (one injury crash caused for > 850 driver-years).

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It's just the more piratical insurance companies abusing their monopoly and angling for another premium price-hike...

Oooh! Did I think that out loud..? Mea multa culpa!

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