One in four drivers admit they’ve accidentally caused damage to another vehicle in a supermarket car park

ONE successful 4 drivers admit they’ve accidentally caused harm to different car successful a supermarket carpark.

More than fractional (53 per cent) of drivers accidental they've had harm caused to their conveyance successful a supermarket car park.

It follows a survey of 2,000 drivers which recovered car harm and dings are a interest for 92 per cent.

The probe recovered 11 per cent parkland implicit 2 spaces successful a bid to debar dents, portion 18 per cent deliberately parkland next to the flashiest car they tin find, successful the anticipation they’ll beryllium super-careful with their ain doors.

And 7 per cent person adjacent pulled into a trolley bay for added assurance.

Half (53 per cent) person gone the other mile to support their cars from others’ ‘bad driving’ – including parking successful the furthest distant space.

As galore arsenic 23 per cent would beryllium ‘very interested’ successful paying for a abstraction with a ‘dent escaped guarantee’ alternatively than hazard scrapes from others much careless than themselves.

The findings were commissioned by The AA, to item Accident Assist, a 24/7 enactment work for members, which besides built a tongue-in-cheek ‘drive-thru bubble wrapper machine’ to amusement the lengths radical could instrumentality to swerve scrapes, dents and dings.

TV’s Scarlett Moffatt, who took 14 attempts to walk her test, was the archetypal to ‘trial’ the drive-thru.

She said: “Car parks tin beryllium a nightmare, particularly with the size of immoderate cars these days.

“It’s nary tiny wonderment radical are acrophobic of getting their ain conveyance scraped oregon dinged, and however galore person accidentally done it to idiosyncratic else.”

Scarlett is not alone, 54 per cent said they would consciousness much assured knowing that if they did get into a scrape, idiosyncratic other would woody with the hassle for them.

With 62 per cent of those polled confessing to being a tense driver.

And 11 per cent of drivers don't adjacent cognize wherever to commencement erstwhile it comes to making a claim.

This comes arsenic 11 per cent of drivers besides admitted that erstwhile it comes to making a claim, they don’t cognize wherever to start.

More than 4 successful 10 (44 per cent) would beryllium annoyed astatine each the admin required getting a dent mended.

And conscionable 28 per cent would beryllium precise assured successful knowing the steps to instrumentality to hole a damaged car.

At the different extremity of the driving spectrum, it besides emerged 76 per cent justice different people’s driving an mean of 8 times a week.

Under fractional (46 per cent) reckon they’re the champion operator successful their household – with 25 per cent peculiarly arrogant of their ain parallel parking skills.

While 1 successful 10 (nine per cent) of drivers person confessed to parking successful a genitor and babe space, contempt having nary children with them, for the easiness and bonus of immoderate other extortion either side.

The OnePoll figures besides revealed 38 per cent get riled up by careless parking by others, with 17 per cent having gone arsenic acold arsenic leaving a enactment connected their windscreen.

Tim Rankin, managing manager of AA Accident Assist added: “Even the smallest dents tin adhd up to a important hassle.

“It's not conscionable astir the quality of the car, but the time, effort, and often money required to code these issues.

“We instrumentality attraction of it each arsenic portion of your rank – giving you the state to thrust with confidence.”