IF YOU don’t like Mondays there’s a good reason. It’s the most dangerous day of the week: you’re more likely to have an accident if you are driving on business.
Hardly cheery news for the start of the week, but Monday has taken over from Tuesday as the day involving most accidents for company car drivers. So says LeasePlan, a contract hire and leasing company, following new research.
The vast majority of accidents happen between 8am and 10am; 10% of accidents involve company car drivers hitting stationary objects.
Graham Rixon, operations director of LeasePlan UK, commented: “As roads become busier and drivers are placed under more pressure at work, time is an ever important factor. Business car managers need to be acutely aware of the most dangerous times that their drivers are on the road.
“Monday has often been judged the worst day of the week. But if businesses work with drivers to improve their safety on the roads, there can be one less reason to dread the Monday morning commute.”
Monday is crash day for company car drivers
