It’s a beautiful summers day and you are driving along without a care. You’ve got your sun-glasses on, the window down and the radio pumping your favourite tunes. Out of the corner of your eye, you spot a woman in her summer best and start singing to yourself: ‘Pretty woman walking down street, pretty woman the kind — then CRASH. BANG. You’ve gone straight into the car in front of you. It won’t be the first and it certainly won’t be the last car accident caused by a man’s inbuilt hottie-spotting ability! It’s hard to imagine a more embarrassing phone call to your car insurance company when claiming.

Just last month, in a ‘rare’ outspoken moment (note the sarcasm) Top Gear’s Jeremy Clarkson, shared his thoughts on this problem. He remarked: ‘People imagine the most dangerous time of the year to drive is November or perhaps February – dark nights, fog, ice’ He goes on to say that ‘Sunny skies, light breezes, girls wearing short skirts, because the thing is, you can’t not look. You can’t physically not look.’

Recent research in the UK has highlighted that 29% of male drivers admitted to being distracted by women during the summer. Whereas only 3% of female motorists said that they were distracted by men’s summer clothing. The research also highlights last summer that men made 16.4% more claims than women, with a quarter of men stating that in the past five years they had at least one summertime crash or near miss.

I would like to hear if anyone out there has had a similar experience and if you admitted it to your insurance company or your girlfriend. I wish I had some words of wisdom for male drivers this summer but I think it’s pretty obvious, get your eyes off the skirt and keep them on the road.

 

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