10,000 road accidents caused in Britain in 2006 were the result of tailgaters, whose impatience is putting drivers, who abide to the speed limits lives at risk, making it the most annoying habit on the roads in a recent survey.
Tailgating is where drivers drive close than the two second gap that is advised within the Highway Code, resulting in 7 percent of road accidents in the UK. If drivers use less gear changes and drive at a more of a constant speed and stuck to speed limits the average journey has been found to be 8 percent faster overall.
When drivers are being tailgated it has shown that their heart rates rise, increasing their stress levels, bullying the safe drivers in to making them speed themselves. As these drivers are usually parents with small children in the car, this is putting more and more lives at risk.
Advice has been given by the Royal Society for the prevention of Accidents that if you feel threatened by a tailgater pull over and let them pass, rather than putting your life at risk.
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