New research has established a possible link between the growing number of motor insurance claims and the overuse of car horns by UK drivers.
The survey from esure established that 90 per cent of UK motorists regularly use their horn 'inappropriately,' as British drivers sound off their devices more than 30 billion times a year collectively.
And such overuse of the car horn could end up having negative consequences – 30 per cent of drivers polled said they felt 'stressed' whenever they were hooted at, while three quarters thought the sound of the horn lead to greater levels of road rage.
'Modern life is fast-paced and high pressured which is why people often get impatient and agitated while driving,' said Mike Pickard of esure.
And a professor of transport psychology at Napier University, Steve Stradling argued that sounding one's horn inappropriately 'breaks the rules of the road, which are intended to facilitate safe progress for all'.
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