nick
October 2nd, 2009, 09:27 AM
Nearly half a million road accidents a year are caused by women drivers applying make-up behind the wheel, a new survey discloses.
Around on fifth of female motorists confess they have touched up their mascara on the move – equivalent to 2.7 million of Britain's 15 million women drivers.
Three per cent admitted causing a collision when distracted by applying cosmetics.
Young women, aged between 17 and 21, were found to be the most likely to put beauty before safety and most liable to crash their car as a result.
Twenty-seven per cent confessed to putting on make-up and nine per cent of those aged 18 or younger have had a crash while doing so – three times the average.
That compares with just six per cent of women aged 56 or older who are least likely to do it at the wheel and just one in 200 – 0.5 per cent – in that age group who have had an accident while applying make-up.
Full story here (http://www.telegraph.co.uk/motoring/news/6252919/Half-a-million-road-crashes-caused-by-women-drivers-applying-make-up.html)
Around on fifth of female motorists confess they have touched up their mascara on the move – equivalent to 2.7 million of Britain's 15 million women drivers.
Three per cent admitted causing a collision when distracted by applying cosmetics.
Young women, aged between 17 and 21, were found to be the most likely to put beauty before safety and most liable to crash their car as a result.
Twenty-seven per cent confessed to putting on make-up and nine per cent of those aged 18 or younger have had a crash while doing so – three times the average.
That compares with just six per cent of women aged 56 or older who are least likely to do it at the wheel and just one in 200 – 0.5 per cent – in that age group who have had an accident while applying make-up.
Full story here (http://www.telegraph.co.uk/motoring/news/6252919/Half-a-million-road-crashes-caused-by-women-drivers-applying-make-up.html)