Interesting driving facts

Driving is the part of our daily routine, but it has some of the interesting facts as well. Lets have a look on them

• An average human being spends almost two weeks of their entire life watching at red lights.


• The speeding tickets were first issued in 1902; most of the cars have hardly reached 45mph.


• The Ford GT car has actually so strong that it had broken the crushing machine during “Roof Crush” test.


• Australia has now outside the top ten OECD countries for road accident fatality rate. The safest country is Sweden, Netherlands and United Kingdom.


• Since 2000, the road accidents are the third most common cause of death.


• 50 % of the crashes involved around 10% of drivers.


• 20% of the crashes are due to fatigue


• Up to 90% of crashes are occurring due to the performance and behavior of the driver as averse to driving conditions and road structures.


• 50% of the teenage driver to more likely to involved in a car crash if they are travelling with another teenage friend.


• A 2 star car has now doubled the accidents / injury risks of the 5 A cars.


• Drivers of the learner license will be having 80 % safe drive if they are driving 5 star cars, which will be 20 % less road accident fatalities.


• Wire rope barriers and bitumen on the roadside with some of the ripple strips can decrease 60% - 90 % of the serious injuries.


• Sweden has the speed limit of 70 kmph instead of 100 kmph.

• Almost 89 % of all the new drivers after taking their driving license get into at least one crash during their first 5 years of driving, to minimize the risk of crashes assure to have an official  driving training from a driving school Kingsford and cheap driving school.


• $ 800 is the average cost of a collision settlement by the jury awarded by Allstate Insurance


• About 80% of all the collisions and near misses are due to driver inattention in the 3 seconds just before the things went wrong.


• Half of the road fatalities happened at less than 35 mph speed impact


• 10 % of the roads more than 80 % of the traffic in a typical city


• Around 10 % to 70 % of the people are looking for parking in urban traffic


• People who have their apartments on the streets with more traffic outside are likely to have fewer friends and they go less outside.


• Saturday at 1 p.m. is the heaviest traffic hour than any other weekday rush hour.


• Around 350 people die every year by entering the wrong way onto the freeway. Almost 50 people kill by the cars in the driveways


• Highways can handle more cars at the speed limit of 55 mph than 80 mph 


• When the roads are closed due to construction, traffic on the other nearby roads are decreasing instead of increasing.