Your mood is great as you have just been on a widely successful shopping trip and picked up some great deals but your mood changes rapidly once you have gotten back to the car park. Someone has left a dent in your car. Luckily you have car insurance to cover this but it doesn’t stop the heart from sinking. We have all had our little accidents in the past in particular when we were just learner drivers. Very few people have not had a ‘little tip’ at some stage. The question is would you own up to it? Recent studies show that up to 20% of people would not.
And if you’re lucky enough to be the proud owner of a hot motor you have more cause for worry than those with older, less pristine versions. 20 percent of the 3,000 motorists questioned in the poll by a UK insurance company said their decision whether to leave their details would depend on what kind of car they hit… A meagre 1 percent would own up if they hit a fancier car like a Volkswagen Golf GTi.
Slightly less than 50% of the people that were surveyed had their own cars damaged in a similar way previously. Of this, only 15% got details of the person who hit their car. When there are no visible signs of damage then two thirds of those involved will not leave their details. In these instances they convince themselves that the bang caused absolutely no damage at all.
Slightly more women (61 percent) would leave their details if they caused visible damage to another car than men (56 percent). It’s a pity that so many people would walk away if they hit someone else’s car, as, let’s face it, it’s pretty horrible when it happens to you.
The worst culprits seem to be new drivers, under 18 years, as a quarter of them wouldn’t even admit they had caused damage to their friend’s car! The older, wiser drivers over 55 years are a more honest bunch - 94 percent of them would own up, probably because it has happened to them in the past.
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