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Originally Posted by Frank Lee
25%... of what? 
If my odds of being involved in a head-on are 2,000,000,000:1 without and 1,500,000,000:1 with, well, I ain't gonna lose any sleep over it. |
With every study you will always find naysayers. In fact I think there was even a study done in the USA where the highway traffic safety board found no change in accident stats. Goes against the 20-30 other studies done internationally since the 1970's that show safety benefits.
A quick google for it shows an EU study:
25% of daytime multi-vehicle fatal accidents (11% of all non-pedestrian fatal accidents)
• 28% of daytime fatal pedestrian accidents (12% of all fatal pedestrian accidents)
• 20% of daytime multi-vehicle injury accidents
• 12% of daytime multi-vehicle property accidents
Thing is these are generally published and peer reviewed studies. If you don't care for it then do as you wish. Do you wear your seat belt when you drive? There are stats on that and crash fatalities too. There are stats on that and lifelong brain injuries from impacting the windshield too.
I live in Canada where you must have DRLs and from experience I find it greatly increases the visibility of other cars.
-Michael