According to a recent survey by Liberty Insurance, 64% of men admitted to speeding compared to 49% of women.
The top three bad habits that Irish drivers have admitted to are driving over the speed limit (56%), forgetting to dim lights when meeting on-coming cars (31%) and driving too close to the car in front (22%). Worryingly, 10% admitted to driving without a seatbelt in the past year and both sexes are guilty of taking their eye off the road with almost one in five of the driving population having admitted to eating, shaving, applying makeup or brushing hair while driving.
Most alarming of all is that while only 1% admitted to driving without a seatbelt with children in the car almost 2 in 5 drivers have said they observed this in the past year.
The research, conducted by Millward Brown, also saw men admit to suffering more from frustration on the road with 24% unnecessarily beeping the horn compared to 16% of women while a quarter of women admit to having taken more than three turns when trying to park compared to 17% of men.
Liberty Insurance head of marketing Annette Ni Dhathlaoi said: “ Many Irish drivers are guilty of bad habits such as tailgating, driving over the speed limit or taking our eye off the road which can lead to road accidents.”
28th May 2013
