Crank up the music, increase car accident claim rates

Researchers have discovered that listening to your favourite tunes while driving could put you at risk of causing a road accident which may result in personal injury and the need for numerous car accident claims to be made.

It is unlikely that cruising along to the gentle sounds of Classic FM will put you in danger of having a car crash but those who have their stereos cranked up to the max and blast out loud, big base tunes are thought to be putting themselves and the rest of us at risk.

According to the RAC Foundation research, drivers who were listening to loud music with a fast beat were twice as likely to jump a red light and also twice as likely to have a car accident.

Stereo systems appear to be getting louder, more sophisticated and more affordable which means that vehicles booming to the beat of pop, rock or reggae are becoming all the more common place.

Any individual exposed to noise levels of more than 85dB for eight or more hours of the day can expect to sustain noise-induced hearing loss and the study also revealed that a regular car stereo can produce 100dB, which is particularly worrying for delivery drivers, for example, who listen to music while they work for much of the day.

Edmund King, Executive Director of the RAC Foundation issued the following advice to UK drivers, "We would ask motorists to be responsible when driving and not put lives at risk for the sake of blasting out the latest tunes.

"Although the decrease in reaction time from playing loud music translates into mere fractions of a second, on the UK's busy roads, this reduction could mean the difference between a hit or a miss."

The playing of loud music is clearly going to cause a distraction to the driver of the vehicle and also to other road users in the surrounding area. It is well worth turning down your stereo to ensure you don't cause serious personal injury to others in a car accident.

There are several paths of action that the authorities could take to help reduce car crash rates and the number of subsequent car accident claims made, including:

Serving an ASBO local police forces are entitled to serve ASBOs banning drivers from certain roads under the Police Reform Act 2002.

Seizing a vehicle under the same act, the police can stop and seize a vehicle which is causing alarm, distress or annoyance to members of the public.

Confiscating equipment under the Environmental Protection Act 1990, loud music from stationary vehicles may be defined as a statutory nuisance, which allows Environmental Health Officers to serve abatement notices, impose fines or confiscate the audio equipment.

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