OK, so you have been on your shopping expedition and you have picked up some good bargains. You return to the car park and bang your mood suddenly changes. Someone has dented your car. Is there anything more infuriating? Most of us have experienced this scenario, especially when we were just learner drivers. The question is though, would you own up to this accident and leave your details behind or would you make a quick getaway? A new survey indicates that as many as 1 in five people would not own up to damaging a parked car.
Another cause for concern is if you are the proud owner of a beauty of a car. 20% of 3000 drivers who were questioned in a recent car insurance survey admitted that the decision on whether to own up to an accident would depend on the type of car they crashed into. It is better to have a crock of a car in this instance as only 1% of drivers would own up if the car they hit was a VW Golf GTi.
Of those who were surveyed, almost half had had their own parked car damaged, and only 15 percent of those were left details by the culprit. Two thirds said they wouldn’t leave their details if they couldn’t see any visible damage on the car they hit – probably by persuading themselves that bang they heard was nothing after all!
In the battle of the sexes, women prove to be a more honest bunch. Women are 6% more likely to won up to crashing into a parked car than men. Hurray for the women, but it is still shocking that so many people would walk away after hitting someone’s car. Especially if it is your own car!
Not to keep hammering new drivers but once again the main culprits on the road are new drivers. Up to 25% of new drivers would not admit to even damaging their friend’s car. Contrast this with drivers in the over 55 category who seem to be a more honest bunch. 94% of these elderly drivers would own up to this incident as it has happened to them in the past
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