Are Red cars more prone to accident?

I don't know if they are more prone to accident, but they seem more prone to being keyed... Nearly everyone I know who's had a red car has been keyed at some point.

When I was younger, my red Mustang was keyed.
My sister's red T-bird was keyed.
My friend's red Porsche cab was keyed.
My aunt's red Lexus was keyed.
Another friend's red pickup was keyed.
My girlfriend's red Pontiac was keyed.

 

I do know that insurance companies do not have "red" car owners pay more. My brother learned this in driving class and told my father. My father did not believe it so he called our insurance company, USAA, and talked to the insurance agent. He asked if color affected the insurance costs and the agent replied “no it does not.”

Not sure if this answers whether they are more likely to get into an accident or not but it seems that all color cars are equally "endangered"

 

Probably because there are infinitely more red sports cars (Corvettes and Ferraris especially).

 

I also saw that on TV.

 

IMO cars that stand out more will draw attention. I saw a black mustang and a yellow camaro racing one day, the cop pulled over the yellow car.

I remember reading an article (Forbes IIRC) about how DHL got a premium cut because of the color of their vehicles.

 

they should be the most ticketed and in accidents.... hopefully that will get rid of some of them... lol@red. Why have a red Ferrari? If you want common, people should just buy a toyota.

 

Apparently it's an urban myth.

But: are redheads talking on cell phones while driving Ford Expeditions more prone to accident?

I'm into the darker colors, and didn't want red. But Ferraris are all rare enough that I wouldn't worry about it in general.

The only exception is at major Ferrari concours/shows, where I end up parking in a sea of red 328s.

 

Taken from a website : ""A new study says silver cars are 50 percent less likely to be involved in a crash resulting in serious injury, according to researchers in Auckland, New Zealand, who correlated crash data with car color.

On the flip side, they found drivers of brown, black or green vehicles were more likely to suffer serious injury in a crash.

The AAA Foundation for Traffic Safety says colors can create conditions that can cause fatigue, increase stress or decrease visual perception. Color can also impact mood and people make purchasing decisions based on mood.

Surprisingly, the color red is one of the hardest colors to see. Lime yellow is one of the most visible during the day. At night, white is best.

When it comes to popularity, silver is at the top. Auto paint maker PPG Industries reports that silver has been the most popular new car color for three years in a row.

Critics of the study say age, sex, weather conditions and time of day could also be factors in accidents and should have been taken into account. "

 

Its interesting how color trends are between countries.

In the 80's red cars where every other car (well it felt like that!) and then people got properly bored of seeing red cars and in 90's silver became the new red.

This trend continued until recently and now silver cars are now starting to fall out of fashion. I wonder what the new fashion color will be?

 

Bring back the dark browns of the 70's!!!!. um...

 

I believe white might be the coming colour. Not keen on it myself but anything different after all those years of silver can't be a bad thing.

 

Are they on crack? Age, sex, weather and visibility "could" be a factor in a crash?

Like the paint is evil and searches for collisions?

"Red cars crash more" because it's a popular colour for sports cars {which requires more skill to drive quickly} and hence, more damage.

Surely all of you know this???

Geesh.

 

For 2007 WHITE has replaced Silver for the 1st color of choise. The auto mfg's run these survey's so that they can plan on what colors to bring into the dealerships as the new model's come out. Thats why it difficult to get any car of color half way through the model year.
Also Red cars don not have a history of being more involved in accidents. If you look at the number of Red cars sold vs. other colors it is pretty low so odds wise their crash numbers are low.
I'm out of the norm because I have never had a Silver/gray or White car in the 48 years I've been driving. Enjoy

 

I had heard from an officer that red cars do get more tickets then any other color.

 

There was an article in R&T some years ago about car colors. It seems the manufactures choose the colors for their cars each year, on the hottest lingerie colors of about 6 years prior. Was white a hot lingerie color back 6 years or so ago, give or take??

I remember a guy I knew growing up. He bought a 73 Ford 250 4X4, a bright shiney red one. After having it backed into repeatedly on all four sides, he had it painted black. It never got hit again. Our theory was that people see red much better and thier depth perception tells them its farther away, so they hit it. Black sucks up all the light and thus appears to to be much closer than it really is, so they stop short.