What color is the safest? Silver, white, etc................

[Alan Peters]

Check this out. See what colors are safe. My ST is silver and was rear ended.



<a href="http://channels.netscape.com/autos/package.jsp?floc=cp-tos-toda-h-02&name=fte/carcolor/carcolor">NO MATTER WHAT COLOR THE ST RULES!</a>

 

[Chet 02]

They need to see the eye doctor if they don't see mine....[Broken External Image]:

It practically glows in the dark.

 

[Heather Rueckert]

I would say Competition Orange. If people can't see me coming, then they don't need a license. -Heather

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[Larry Phillips]

Funny, it says silver is 50% less likely to get hit, and usually (in the ST world) that color gets into accidents more.

 

[Fer Echegaray]

The color of my car is (or a shade close to):

Silver 18%

White 17%

Red 17%

Black 13%

Blue 13%

Green 11%

Gray 5%

Brown 4%

Yellow 2%

 

[roger Biddlecombe]

Think again , The Worlds Fire Departments vote for Bright Lime Green as most visible colour,But just imagine a Trac in lime green ??"?????

 

[Casey B]

woohoo White is right

 

[Johnny O]

I've had a couple silver or gray vehicles and they seem to be invisible. OTHO, when someone ran a stop sign and plowed into me, I had my green Ranger. :wacko:

 

[Richard L]

Roger

Wow, Lime green paint sounds like a throw-back to the early 1970's !!

 

[TomT]

Many Fire Departments went to white and lime green in the 70's and early 80's. They found out that it didn't help a bit. Thankfully most went back to red. Hey, if you can't see all the flashing lights than your not going to see the vehicle, no matter what color it is. (A lime green fire truck is butt ugly). As for a vehicle without emergency lights, I guess at night a lighter color would show up better.

If Truc Trac is right then I'm doomed in my WWB Trac.

 

[James FreemanJr]

2001 Silver here with no accidents.

 

[Tom Schindler]

The Ohio State Patrol is switching back to white cars from silver. It is more of a greyish silver, but silver nontheless.



The reason? The silver cars were harder to see and the original idea to go to silver was so the cars would be harder to see.



When they switched to silver, the accident rate with the patrol cars went up.



A state highway patrolman told me that at the state fair when I asked him about it. I figure if anyone should know, it should be a patrolman.





Tom