New research has revealed that drivers of black cars are the most likely to break the speed limit while at the other end of the spectrum, drivers of purple cars are the least likely.
Insurance expert elephant.co.uk looked at data from over 1.5 million motorists and found that motorists who drive black cars are 9% more likely than the average driver to have points on their licence for breaking the speed limit.
Drivers of grey cars were also found to be more likely than average to have speeding points on their license. Closely following black cars, drivers of grey cars are 8% more likely than average to have been caught speeding.
Brian Martin, managing director of elephant.co.uk, said, "We wanted to know why it is that drivers of black and grey cars appear to have more of a propensity to speed so we looked into more detail at the cars on our books.
"We found it didn’t necessarily correlate that black and grey cars would have bigger engines, so evidently for drivers of these coloured cars, the temptation to break the speed limit is simply too great whatever their engine size."
It’s not a colour you see as often as black or grey, but the research revealed that drivers of purple cars are proportionally the least likely to be caught speeding. In fact, as well as purple cars, it was the brighter, more conspicuous cars such as white, yellow and red that were found to be the least likely to have owners with a propensity to speed.
Drivers of purple cars are 18% less likely than the average driver to have a speeding conviction, motorists in white cars are 15% less likely than average and those in yellow and red cars are 14% and 13% less likely respectively. These are then followed by drivers of green, brown and blue cars with silver cars reflecting the average for speeding convictions.
Brian Martin continued, "With red cars 13% less likely than average to be caught speeding, it seems the urban legend that police officers play snooker when catching speeders is out of date. However, no matter what colour car you drive, my advice would be to drive within the speed limit at all times."
Issue date: 24-04-09 |
