This colour car is the safest on the road
Even though there is no actual scientific proof, and car crashes tend to happen by chance and not in correlation to anything specific- studies done with over a thousand cars do suggest that silver cars are less likely to end up in a car crash.
People driving in silver cars were apparently 50% less likely to suffer serious injury in a crash compared with drivers of white cars, the research 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, who led the study says they don’t know why silver cars appear safer. “We think it may be due to a combination of light colour and high reflectivity,” she speculates.
“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.”
Luckily for us, silver is a very popular car colour- which means ‘less accidents’, if there is any truth to this theory!
(Source: New Scientists)