Honda FRV Tops List Of Most Accident-Prone Cars

Tue, 14 Jun 2011

The Honda FRV has been named as the unluckiest car in the UK, with new research showing the car has the highest rate of accidents.

Price comparison site Confused.com found that 466 accident claims have been made by 2,529 owners of the 6-seater Honda over the past five years, equal to a claim rate of 18.4 per cent, or almost one in five - the highest in the country.

Second on the list of unlucky, accident-prone cars was the Volvo XC90, with a claim rate of 15.9 per cent, followed by the Lexus RX with 15.5 per cent of owners making an accident claim in the last five years.

Confused.com also looked at which cars were least likely to be involved in accident claims.

The Mazda 2 was found to be the safest car in the country, with only nine of the 1,076 owners reported to have made a claim since 2006 – a claim rate of less than 1 per cent.

Gareth Kloet, head of car insurance at Confused.com, said: "Car accidents are rarely a result of mechanical failures: they are more often caused by human error or just bad fortune."

"It could be that drivers of this model happen to be more careless or reckless than other motorists. Or it could simply be that this group of road users has been particularly unlucky in the period when the data was collected."
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