What color of car has the most accidents?

Question

Just curious

Answer 1

Red colored vehicles. Insurance companies charge a higher premium for red vehicles due to this statistic.

Answer 2

Red, because the color subconsciously triggers a desire in your mind, or something along those lines, so you avert your attention to the car and lo and behold, an accident happens. The red car may not be in the accident per se, but it was the cause of it. And red usually goes hand in hand with sports cars, which are apparently 'fast and furious.'

There was another reason for this, but I forgot what it was.

Answer 3

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Answer 4

Red cars usually get hit from behind because if you are driving behind one and the sun is in your eyes, you usually can't see when their brake lights are on. We all know that insurance companies usually charge a higher premium for red cars and they are mostly suspect-able to get pulled over by a cop. Silver and gray cars are the best colors. That's why there are soooo many out there!

Answer 5

I think Black and very dark colors. I had a black car and people would hit me from behind. I twice rear ended a black car, once I didn't see the car, and the other time I could not judge the distance.

It is very difficult to judge distance of black cars and sometimes they can't be seen as well, or as a perceptive matter we don't notice them as much.

White may also be difficult to judge distance but I do not know, although if a white car is dented it is easier to notice the dent (info as per autobody authority).

Conclusion: avoid black cars and avoid white cars.

One of my favorite autobody colors is medium to dark aqua blue, similar to a Turqois, but more blue than green; a little on the dark side but not too dark.

Answer 6

Silver cars are much less likely to be involved in a serious crash than cars of other colours, suggests a new study of over 1000 cars.

People driving in silver cars were 50 per cent less likely to suffer serious injury in a crash compared with drivers of white cars, the research in New Zealand found.

White, yellow, grey, red and blue cars carried about the same risk of injury. But those taking to the roads in black, brown or green cars were twice as likely to suffer a crash with serious injury.

Sue Furness, at the University of Auckland, led the study but says the team does not know why silver cars appear safer. "We think it may be due to a combination of light colour and high reflectivity," she speculates.

She suggests that increasing the proportion of silver cars on the road might provide a "passive strategy" to cut car crash injuries.

"If there's proof that certain colours are safer and easier to see in all road conditions that might be useful to people in terms of purchasing a car," says Roger Vincent, of the UK Royal Society for the Prevention of Accidents. But he adds: "A lot of people will buy things purely on fashion."

Engine size
In their study, Furness and her colleagues took into account the engine size, make and age of the car, as well the sex, age, socio-economic status and ethnicity of the drivers. They also controlled for road conditions and ambient light conditions.

But Vincent says other factors could be important, such as the way people view different colours, how many miles the car has on the clock and the background being driven against.

The data was gathered from reports of road crashes in the Auckland area between 1998 and 1999. Silver cars made up about 11 per cent of the fleet analysed and were the fourth most popular car colour after white, blue and red.

Metallic finish cars, such as silver ones, are more expensive, but Furness does not believe this is an important factor. "From these controlled data it seems unlikely that the explanation for silver cars being associated with a lower risk of car crash injury is related to the price or 'quality' of the vehicle," she told New Scientist.

Answer 7

i think its BLACK, i have a black car b4 and i had 3 accidents in less than a year. the worst one is when i had the car parked and it was hit by a huge truck. good thing we saw what happend so the driver ended up paying for my damages. now im driving a different car with a different color.

Answer 8

I say red,The insurance is high because of risk,red is a color for a fast ,hi visibility car,most people with a red car haul butt,it all about looks and attitude,you increase your odds of wrecking if you go fast or skylark with a car

Answer 9

I would say red- faces, from having one from looking at your beautiful foot jewelry! Your darker colored cars, gray for instance, I'm guessing, are the hardest to see at dusk and dawn and cloudy, rainy days. It used to be more expensive to insure a red car for some reason.

Answer 10

Red