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Nearly half a million road accidents a year are caused by women drivers applying make-up behind the wheel.

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David Black | 20:38 Sun 04th Oct 2009 | ChatterBank
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Nearly half a million road accidents a year are caused by women drivers applying make-up behind the wheel, a new survey discloses.Around on fifth of female motorists confess they have touched up their mascara on the move – equivalent to 2.7 million of Britain's 15 million women drivers.Three per cent admitted causing a collision when distracted by applying cosmetics.

The poll of 4,000 women drivers by women's motor insurer Diamond comes a year after the introduction of a new offence of causing death by careless driving which carries a prison sentence of up to two years.

Previously, careless driving offences – including applying make-up, eating and map-reading – were punishable only by a fine.

Young women, aged between 17 and 21, were found to be the most likely to put beauty before safety and most liable to crash their car as a result.

Twenty-seven per cent confessed to putting on make-up and nine per cent of those aged 18 or younger have had a crash while doing so – three times the average.

That compares with just six per cent of women aged 56 or older who are least likely to do it at the wheel and just one in 200 – 0.5 per cent – in that age group who have had an accident while applying make-up.
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http://www.telegraph.co.uk/motoring/news/6252919/Half-a-million-road-crashes-caused-by-women-drivers-applying-make-up.html

Don't worry ladies the idiot who wrote this cannot count! if it were true it would be 81,000 accidents which I recon is less than men crashing whilst listening to football on the radio.
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Sorry Doc it was the DT not being able to count!
you want to look okay in case you have a crash dont you :)
Cant say i have ever applied make up whilst i was driving but i have seen other women do it while stopped at traffic lights.
I shave my legs while I'm driving.
I tweezer my tache
ouch! I bleach... while driving, obviously.
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I can see myself getting in hot water here!
you can't bath whilst driving, David. it ruins the leather seats.
but you can ped egg your heels
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