SIGHT OF SCANTILY-CLAD WOMAN DRIVES MEN TO DISTRACTION !!!!!

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So Clarkson was right: Sight of a scantily-clad woman drives men to distraction (... and off the road)


By Daily Mail Reporter
30th July 2010

It may come as little surprise that seeing a scantily clad woman drives men to distraction.

But it seems the sight of a female dressed for summer is also driving many of them off the road.

Men are ten times more likely than women to lose concentration behind the wheel because they see a person in a skimpy outfit, according to researchers.

Despite conditions being brighter and visibility better, male drivers are more likely to crash in summer because they are distracted by women, who tend to be wearing less in the heat.

Earlier this week Jeremy Clarkson brought the issue up on the BBC’s Top Gear in a discussion in front of a studio audience.
He said: ‘People imagine the most dangerous time of the year to drive is November or perhaps February – dark nights, fog, ice.

‘But we were talking about this the other day and we think the most dangerous time to drive a car is round about now.

‘Sunny skies, light breezes, girls wearing short skirts, because the thing is, you can’t not look. You can’t physically not look.’

Co-presenter Richard Hammond interjected, saying: ‘You can physically not use your mobile phone and it’s easy not to drive home when you’ve had 18 pints of lager. Butwhen you’re driving along and a girl walks past, you have to look.’
Clarkson then went on to relate an anecdote about a woman in a burka - which sparked anger among some viewers.'
The burka doesn't work,' he said. 'I was in a cab in Piccadilly the other day when a woman in a full burka crossing the road in front of me tripped over the pavement, went head over heels and up it came, red g-string and stockings. I promise that happened. The taxi driver will back me up on that.'



There have been a number of complaints to the BBC about the remark.

A survey of 1,400 motorists, conducted on behalf of insurance firm Sheilas’ Wheels, found that 29 per cent of male drivers admitted to being distracted by women during the summer.

By contrast, just three per cent of female motorists said that men’s choice of summer clothing puts them off their driving.

The research also revealed that men made 16.4 per cent more claims than women last summer. And a quarter of men have had at least one summertime crash or near miss in the past five years.


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