Most drivers cannot identify road signs

Most people know how to drive. However, fewer than 10 per cent of motorists can identify road signs correctly.

London, Aug 24 : Most people know how to drive. However, fewer than 10 per cent of motorists can identify road signs correctly.

The finding is based on a new survey by insurance firm Admiral, who found that nine out of 10 drivers cannot name all 20 road signs.

The survey also found that 70 percent of motorists use "sign-tology", a mixture of common sense and logic, to work out signs.

More dangerously, a fifth simply ignore signs they cannot understand.

Autoglass boss Nigel Doggett insisted that with about 3.5 million signs, signals and markings on the roads in the UK, it was important to be able to identify the signs.

"It is important they are understood," the Mirror quoted him, as saying.

The survey also noted that women are the worst culprits, but they are also the politest drivers, especially the ones between 40 to 49.

ANI