Car Insurance
Brits behind the wheel blame others
Mon, 20 Mar 2006
A study into risk taking has found that Britons generally consider themselves to be safe drivers and are quick to blame others on the road for taking chances.
The Brake and Green Flag study revealed that 96 per cent of workers said they were safe and two thirds thought the biggest problem on the roads was other drivers.
Just two per cent of drivers admitted they took risks on the road and one per cent thought the roads were full of safe drivers.
It was also revealed that 15 per cent of motorists who said they were always or usually safe had received points on their licence in the last year.
Brake, the motoring charity, claims that this suggests that some drivers do not consider their own driving as creating a serious risk, even after the law has caught up with them.
Mary Williams, chief executive of Brake, said: "It is paramount that drivers, particularly over-confident drivers who are often men, frankly reassess their own ability and acknowledge the risks that they pose to themselves and other road users and stop taking those risks that can so easily and so frequently cost a life."
Driving more safely and slowly means you avoid speeding fines and reduce the chance of an accident and a claim on your car insurance policy.
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