DANGEROUS DRIVING RUNS IN THE FAMILY

According to a French study, dangerous driving runs in the family. According to the study conducted for the Vinci Autoroute Group, which runs French highways, 65 per cent of younger motorists between the ages of 18 and 25 in France say they are influenced by the behind-the-wheel habits of their mother or father – both good and bad. Parental influence weighs far more heavily than that of a driving instructor. The study found:
– Young drivers are more likely to pick up the habits from their father than their mother.
– Motorists whose parents had the habit of driving while over the alcohol limit were twice as likely to do the same as those whose parents didn’t drink and drive.
– Those whose parents drove through red lights or forgot to use turn signals were also much more likely to follow suit than people whose mother and father respected road safety rules.
– 72 per cent of drivers whose parents don’t stop for people trying to cross the road said they did likewise.
* I can testify that 100 percent of the 72 percent that don’t slow down for pedestrians become French taxi drivers.
* Drunk driving, running red lights, no turn signals, not stopping for pedestrians. So, being a jerk is a dominant gene.
* Dangerous driving may run in the family, but not for long, I bet. It’s like a Darwin thing.
* I like how they ease into saying our parents were drunk drivers.