This Car Color Is Safest...
 

If you're in the market for a new car, choose one that is silver. Why? Silver cars are involved in far fewer crashes than cars of other colors.

According to a study by researchers at the University of Auckland in New Zealand that assessed the effect of car colors on the risk of serious injury in over 1,000 Auckland drivers between 1998-99, silver cars were 50 percent less likely to be involved in a crash resulting in a serious injury when compared with white cars.

Reuters reports that the least safe car colors are brown, black, and green. The risk factor for white, yellow, gray, red, and blue cars is in the middle range and about the same for each. Globally, about 3,000 people die every day in a car crash.

About half the drivers in this study had been involved in a crash in which one or more of the occupants had been admitted to the hospital or died, while 571 were not involved in crashes and served as a control group, reports Reuters. Even after taking into account the vehicle and road conditions, driver's age, gender, and educational level, as well as whether the driver had been using drugs or alcohol and had worn a seatbelt, the color of the car still had an impact on the likelihood of a crash.

Why? The researchers have no idea, but they speculate that silver, a light color that is highly reflective, may make cars more visible on the highway. "Increasing the proportion of silver cars could be an effective passive strategy to reduce the burden of injury from car crashes," lead study author Sue Furness told Reuters.

Silver was also the most popular car color in the United States, Europe, and Asia last year, according to the most recent DuPont Global Color Popularity.

The study findings were published in the British Medical Journal.

:) If I didn't get a black TA, I would've gotten a silver one, that was my second choice. Pretty nifty find.

id say like yellow, red and other bright colors would be safer?

red has the most crashes can't see brake lights as well, silver is the hot color right now anyway I can't stand it (repaint a few dozen cars that peeled from the factory and you'll hate it too)

I love my red car, and my blackouts make it perfect to see the brake lights. ;)

at 5 feet from them being dimmed so much :nana:

:nana: so?!

i like silver camaros but I love the black 1s

silver the best color? haha. yesterday down in LA there was this silver camaro, the driver was shot on the freeway and he died.

but the shooter saw him didn't he :lolsign:

:lolsign: well that's one way of looking at it!

If I could do it all over again, I would've gotten a black car.

I can't really get pewter to shine as well as black,

just paint your car Bright orange, that way everyone will see you, and most people will actually advoid you.

For me silver cars are harder to see at dust and dawn.

:) I love silver!