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Booming car stereos increase car accident claim rates
Wed, 07 Dec 2011

Listening to loud music while driving could be causing an increasing number of car accidents which may result in personal injury and the need for a claim to be made.

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

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

Edmund King, Executive Director of the RAC, commented: "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."
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