Irritating behavior on the road
Anyone who is regularly on the road will undoubtedly be annoyed by the behavior of fellow road users. Insurer Allianz Direct asked more than 1,000 Dutch people with a driving license about their biggest annoyances in traffic. There was a top 10 out there.
No matter how safe you drive yourself, you are often largely at the mercy of the driving skills of the people around you in traffic. They are sometimes quite disappointing. This may be due to a lack of insight or talent, but more often it simply has to do with the behavior of your fellow road user. More than 1,000 drivers were asked which behavior disturbs them the most in traffic. At the top is tailgating, followed by smartphone use. No less than three-quarters of the respondents find it antisocial when people use their phones behind the wheel and more than half find it annoying when their own partner does this. It is not the first time that tailgating and telephone use are at the top. In a similar study by Allianz Direct in 2019, those two things were also at the top of the list. Driving unnecessarily on the left, now in third place, is like tailgating an annoyance that has been at the top of such lists for much longer than telephone use.
Biggest annoyances in traffic
- Tailgaters
- Smartphone use
- Driving on the left unnecessarily
- Driving too slowly
- Driving too fast
- Traffic jams
- Throw garbage out the window
- Overtake on the right
- Redirects
- Speed limits
Distraction
Phone use behind the wheel is, according to many, one of the main sources of distraction in traffic. Only other road users cause more distraction than the smartphone, according to the top 10 of the biggest distractions in traffic. Somewhat striking is that children in the car only rank eighth for the greatest distractions.
- Other road users
- Smartphone
- Work on the road
- Billboards along the road
- Drowsiness
- co-drivers
- Oncoming traffic
- Children
- Music
- Work-related matters
Although the smartphone has been integrated into our lives for years and unfortunately also its use behind the wheel, it has only been enforced on a larger scale in recent years. With special mobile cameras that are often set up on a viaduct, the police can automatically detect who is behind the wheel with the phone in their hand. In this way, hundreds of motorists with telephones in hand were recently spotted in just seven hours. Last year, 115,575 fines were handed out, more than 30,000 more than a year earlier.
– Thanks for information from Autoweek.nl