I am curious if that data changes at all if headlights are on. I'd think that with headlights raising visibility of the black cars the incidence of accidents would start to get closer to the same for both colors of cars, but that's just my uneducated opinion.

Honestly? When I said humans should stop being racist towards each other, I wasn't implying that we instead START being racist towards cars.....

I've been looking at car ads and noticed black cars are listed as salvaged much more often than other colors. Yes, there are a lot of black cars on the road, but it didn't seem to be nearly enough to explain the number of salvaged vehicles being advertised.

At least one study confirms that black cars do have more accidents, and far more accidents at dusk.

We race at a local race track. Lots of drivers have dark colored cars because they look cool. My brother is our driver. He said you have a fraction of a second to decide if you're moving somewhere based on what you can see.

Cars the color of the asphalt aren't very easy to see. Incidentally, neither are the white cars because that's the color of the wall. You know who's easy to see and rarely gets bumped? Him. Because him and I decided on a bright yellow car.

Other than two orange cars in different divisions, he's the brightest car out there.

As a side note, racecars don't have headlights. You really don't want glass on a race track. You also have a black window net on your left and roll bars on your right. Plus you've got a helmet and generally your seat comes out around your head to keep you from moving around too much so there's not much seeing left and right that you've got.

I wonder how much black BMWs skew the data.

Driving a black car in Australia seems like a recipe for hot interiors, any safety issues aside.

IMO this is because of peripheral vision you lose most of the colour cuz of the angle the light is hitting your eye. Making dark vehicles really hard to see.

I've seen one accident and experienced one near miss caused by a fast moving black vehicle not being visible to a shoulder check. In my case they flew past me right when I had committed to a U-turn. I did shoulder check, but it was confirmed by a pedestrian that they SUV sped around the blind corner with less than a 2 second window to have seen them.

That is interesting!

I wonder if it's normalised for other factors, insurance companies would know.

Do drivers of black cars drive more aggressively?

Is black a more common colour for higher performance cars?

Yet another case of small number * small number = small number.

by a whopping 47%

So, from 12% to 18%...

Anecdotally, I have had two charcoal colored cars that have both been totaled in wrecks but have had basically no wrecks in my cars that were other colors.

likely different percent based on how much snow a place gets. the reason red and yellow are used in emergency vehicles so much is visibility.

"Black luxury cars are involved in more accidents than white fleet vans, look it up" -Jontron

Is this just an Australian thing? The only car I've had a wreck in was red, 2 different cars, 2 wrecks.

Burgundy, brown, gray, black, blue green, dark gray. Lots of cars and 40 years of driving. No wrecks.

Black car owners like to dark tint their brake light and turn signal lenses because you wanna be STEALTH when you brake or turn.

Interesting because drivers of white cars are usually the most incompetent. Maybe people know to avoid them more and therefore they get into fewer accidents?