Drivers of black coloured cars are more likely to have speeding convictions, supermarket.com can reveal - which may have impact on their car insurance premiums. One in four about 25% black vehicle owners have points on their licenses for speeding, according to the poll, which also found that they are 9% more likely to have committed speeding offences than the average motorist.
The second “speediest” colour is grey, with 25.1% of owners having speeding convictions, followed by silver, blue, and brown according to insurer elephant.co.uk.
Those least likely to have been caught exceeding sped limit are drivers in purple coloured cars, while the owners of the yellow, white and red cars also have few convictions.
The group examined the cars on their books to try to find out why drivers of black and grey vehicles are more likely to be speedy. Managing director, Brian Martin said that “We found it didn’t necessarily correlate that black and grey cars would have bigger engines, so evidently for drivers of these coloured cars, the temptation to break the speed limit is simply too great whatever their engine size”.
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