Study reports driving a white vehicle the safest l Seattle Accident Lawyer

Today Parade Magazine quoted a study by researchers from Australia which stated that white colored vehicles have a higher safety record than darker colored cars.  Compared with cars in daylight hours, black vehicles had a 12% higher crash risk; gray colored were 11% higher; and 10% higher for blue or red colored vehicles.    At dawn or dusk, black or dark colored vehicles had a 47% higher crash risk than white cars!

The magazine also relied on a study by the University of Buffalo which found that sitting in the middle back seat area was 16% safer than any other seat in the vehicle.  Overall, riding in the back seat is 59% to 86% safer than riding in the front.  Riding on the back seat “hump” is 25% safer than sitting in a rear passenger seat.  Too bad they didn’t report on different vehicle types like sedan vs. compact vs. truck vs. SUV vs. wagon, etc.  Would have been interesting to compare all of the different models.

Makes you question about riding shotgun anymore — especially if it’s a black colored car.