{"id":15191,"date":"2025-07-25T18:13:24","date_gmt":"2025-07-25T18:13:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.edriving.com\/three60\/?p=15191"},"modified":"2025-07-25T18:13:24","modified_gmt":"2025-07-25T18:13:24","slug":"new-survey-shows-77-of-drivers-admit-to-tailgating","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.edriving.com\/three60\/new-survey-shows-77-of-drivers-admit-to-tailgating\/","title":{"rendered":"New survey shows 77% of drivers admit to tailgating"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A <a href=\"https:\/\/www.icbc.com\/assets\/en\/1okR3sxQtMnuMeBZLt5BNq\/Tailgating%20survey%20results.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">new survey<\/a> has revealed 77% of drivers in British Columbia admit to \u201cdangerous\u201d tailgating or following too closely behind the vehicle in front on occasion.<\/p>\n<p>However, when the roles are reversed, 86% of motorists say being tailgated makes them feel frustrated, scared, angry or even intimidated.<\/p>\n<p>In the new Insurance Corporation of British Columbia (ICBC) survey by Ipsos, drivers admitted tailgating when the driver ahead is travelling below the speed limit, going too slow, while 30% blamed slower drivers in the fast lane. Meanwhile, 17% admitted they tailgate to block others from cutting in, and 16% simply said they\u2019re in a rush to get where they\u2019re going.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cEvery time you get behind the wheel, you&#8217;re sharing the road, and how you drive affects everyone around you,\u201d said Kathleen Nadalin, ICBC\u2019s road safety program manager.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTailgating isn\u2019t just aggressive, it\u2019s dangerous. It cuts your reaction time, increases your risk of a crash, and puts pressure on the driver ahead. A safe following distance isn\u2019t just a courtesy, it\u2019s a critical part of keeping everyone safe. Remember, the only place tailgating is fun is at a football game, not on the road.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>According to ICBC, rear-end crashes remain one of most common type of collisions reported with tailgating often being a contributing factor. More than 57,000 rear-end collisions were reported to ICBC last year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A new survey has revealed 77% of drivers in British Columbia admit to \u201cdangerous\u201d tailgating or following too closely behind the vehicle in front on occasion. However, when the roles are reversed, 86% of motorists say being tailgated makes them feel frustrated, scared, angry or even intimidated. In the new Insurance Corporation of British Columbia [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":15192,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15191","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-global-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edriving.com\/three60\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15191","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edriving.com\/three60\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edriving.com\/three60\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edriving.com\/three60\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/23"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edriving.com\/three60\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15191"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.edriving.com\/three60\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15191\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edriving.com\/three60\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15192"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edriving.com\/three60\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15191"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edriving.com\/three60\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15191"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edriving.com\/three60\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15191"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}