Sun dazzle kills 23 people

THE extraordinary story of the so-called ‘Walkie-Talkie’ tower in London might have got your attention recently.

The tower managed to melt a Jaguar with the reflected sun from its structure. A rather unintended consequence of the structure’s design – see the story from the BBC’s website ‘Walkie-Tallkie’ skyscraper melts car.

But while the overheated Jaguar is an amusing sidestory, the sun’s rays can be far more dangerous to drivers: lethal in fact.

The Department for Transport reports that 23 people died in a car crash because of dazzling sun in 2010.

An extraordinary – and tragic – statistic in itself.

The dazzling sun is incredibly distracting – often quite blinding – and with autumn here there also comes the risk of driving in low sun.

So before you jump into your company car or business car, it’s important to take some precautions before you drive off.

Here are our key tips to avoid becoming fatally bedazzled by the low sun: