44,000 miles will be driven on the wrong side of the road by Brits traveling abroad this year, said a study from British car insurance company Swiftcover . A number that translates into nearly 180,000 accidents with oncoming traffic.
“With more than 4.4 million UK motorists set to hit foreign roads this summer, the study revealed that more than one in three (39-percent) - equating to 1.7 million UK drivers - will drive on the wrong side of the road at some point on their holiday,” the company explained.
British drivers are almost twice as likely to smash into oncoming vehicles when they are away from home, shows the data from the company. When asked what countries were the hardest to drive in, motorists named Italy as the top choice, followed by France and Germany.
Bad driving by local citizens (71-percent), poor state of foreign roads (24-percent) and driving on the right hand side of the road (22-percent) were all cited as making driving abroad particularly difficult.