Ladies, Please apply makeup before driving ..
Nearly half a million road accidents a year are caused by women drivers applying make-up behind the wheel, a new survey discloses.
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.
Diamond managing director Sian Lewis said it is "worrying" that so many women put themselves and other road users at risk.
"We all have busy lives but applying your make-up when you're driving means your full attention is not on the road ahead," she said.
"Is your mascara more important than yours and other road users' safety? Even if you're lucky enough to arrive at your destination safely, you could be charged with careless driving if spotted by the police.
"Women are generally great at doing more than one thing at once but this is definitely one area where multitasking should not be practised."
Telegraph
qatarisun said :
"hah, I always shaving while i am driving..Rather while I am waiting on the traffic lights for 5-6 minutes each time..3-4 traffic lights, and i am done with the shave...I just don't have time to do it at home, as i start working early..
btw, I've seen once the man putting make-up while driving a pink Kia..."
I am confused..
Why was QS shaving whilst driving ?
Pay peanuts & you get Monkeys
I am in my beloved hometown in India.
Naah drac I keep a beard ;)
and where are you Drac? and why you don't sleep? have just overeaten/overdrunken? still digesting? I am getting off! enough is enough.
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He's in the traffic...shaving himself!
where are you?
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"What lies behind us and what lies before us are small compared to what lies within us."
Oliver Wendell Holmes
Thats what I meant to ask, QS you saw a man shaving while driving??
Sorry Its 4:30 AM here and am really sleepy so ate some words out of the sentence...
not QS is shaving! I have seen a MAN who was shaving while driving..
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"What lies behind us and what lies before us are small compared to what lies within us."
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QS shaving while driving??
I hope and pray you were watching a movie...
hah, I always apply the make-up while i am driving..Rather while I am waiting on the traffic lights for 5-6 minutes each time..3-4 traffic lights, and i am done with the make-up...I just don't have time to do it at home, as i start working early..
btw, I've seen once the man is shaving while driving...
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"What lies behind us and what lies before us are small compared to what lies within us."
Oliver Wendell Holmes
reading a hoarding board on the roads of Doha....Driving is an art..............and something i forgot
Guys and gals just drive safely tats more than enough, stop arguments and dont waste time...
yes Brit safety comes first......people concentrate
No mention of me not being able to use my braun to shave each morning in the car on the way to work, so thats good news ...........
Where is the proof of this real fact ??
messyiss is right... in addition to that... the range in severity of the accidents caused by women is far less than those accidents made by men... just a real fact!!!
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...that we end up sacrificing our driving senses and got us caught in accidents. LOL
"Everything in this book may be wrong." Illusions: The Adventures of The Reluctant Messiah by Richard Bach
if u chk statistics, u'll know dat even without the need for applyin makeup, the number of accidents caused by males between the age of 17-21 is way more than females of any age!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Pay peanuts & you get Monkeys
Or should I say Sherlock, how were you focusing on the road ??
i can remember both. she was putting on this dark red lip stick (if you ask me it was a little too dark for her skin tone) and her car was a sliver Mitsubishi SUV.
I bet you can remember the make-up color but not the car color! :P
i remember one morning i was on my way to work and this woman besides me (she was in her 30's) was putting on make up and almost ran into my car from the side.
OK fine Drac...
MD doesn't use a rear view mirror because he has a rear view video camera linked to a heads up display.
As far as applying makeup, we all like to arrive presentable..
just to finish my report for tomorrow and we are comming.
Danke!
Now you deserve a beer, drac. Why don't you pop in?
Lion King...if you cant "smell" a joke,leave it!
MD is a professional driver with YEARS of experience.
And European attitude while driving.
He starts driving his first car when you start walking first time! :)
it seems you are exaggerating!
Yes?
MD :)
Then it is a 'rural legend', Lion.
Md, I am surprised that you do not use the rear view mirror! Any accidents in the past 16 years? Tailgating is usually done along straight roads and not within city limits... The statement is purely based on what I have seen on these roads.. :)
I am just starting, drac.
Put the beers back in the fridge, magicgragon!
Enough for today! :)
Since I don't use the rear view mirror, Lion, no, I haven't seen any tailgating in Doha. I think, it's only an urban legend! Some people want to make Qatar look bad.
MD, When you see a hazard in the front, the first and foremost thing you would do prior to applying brakes as a good driver would be to look at the rear view mirror for the incomming traffic to avoid a collision from behind as many of them do not keep the safe distance of 2 sec. or more... Hope you might have seen tailgating in Doha streets alomost kissing vehicles each other.... SCARY & CRAZY!
ok i wll do
1st I am not 17 - 21 years old--- my kids are ..hahahahha
2nd -- i don't drive nor i will in the future..better just to sit at the back and let the driver (company car driver) do the driving....
You'll only be frightened, surface. It's better to not look in the rear view mirror. Ignore it!
It is IMPOSSIBLE to apply makeup before driving!
How you'll explain green make-up while driving a blue car!
Or dark-red lipstick with Ferrari-red car?
Think about it! :P
to watch out for people who will soon be up your backside because they are speeding
Rear view mirrors? For what? The road lies ahead!
you cant get rid of the rear view mirror that would make it even more dangerous
or do people not both with it anyway over in qatar
they r looking at their makeup in their car mirror and v r looking at them...LoL
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It drives me crazy, just as bad as a drunk driver.
but what about Reading and Writing Text Messages while driving ??!!
still the girls love to do this ..
you have done the ACCIDENTS a few times ?? ...LOL
I must admit, I have done the same a few times
Just one comment.... Multi tasking while driving.... I wouldn't recommend.
Why not remove all the mirrors in the car for women drivers? I think it's the mirror that makes them do the makeup while driving.
"Everything in this book may be wrong." Illusions: The Adventures of The Reluctant Messiah by Richard Bach