Worst drivers on the roads revealed with surprising entry at number three
New data has revealed the car brands whose drivers are most likely to forget to indicate
The age-old debate about which car brand attracts the worst drivers has been a hot topic at pubs and water coolers for years.
From hogging the middle lane, undertaking or speeding, certain cars have earned a reputation for less than stellar driving.
German car brands often feature in these discussions, with Audi drivers frequently singled out for their risky manoeuvres.
While these actions can be dangerous, it's also the small things that can reveal a bad driver, perhaps the most telling is failing to indicate.
Although "mirror, signal, manoeuvre" is ingrained in many of us from our learner days, new data has revealed exactly which car brand has forgotten this crucial middle step, reports the Express.
Research by DiscoverCars.com observed six different junctions, counting nearly 1,500 cars, categorising each car by brand and noting who was careless enough not to indicate.
Perhaps unsurprisingly, topping the list was BMW. The German manufacturer has long been associated with questionable driving, and this seems to have been confirmed once again, with 19.3% of the motorists caught behind the wheel of the brand.
In a shocking revelation, the data showed BMW drivers were in fact three times less likely to indicate than drivers of the 10th placed Peugeot. Keeping up the stereotype for German-made cars, Mercedes-Benz came in second place, with a staggering 14.7% not using their indicators.
Completing the podium of shame, and moving to France is Renault driver, with a history in rally, perhaps their driver forgot they are instead going around a roundabout in Milton Keynes and failing to indicate 14.5% of the time.
Once again heading back to Germany, Audi was only a few percentage points behind, with 12.7% failing to indicate, with Vauxhall rounding out the top five with 12.7% failing to signal.
Rounding out the rest of the list, VW came in sixth, surprisingly followed by Volvo, Toyota, Honda and Peugeot with just 6.7% failing to signal.
Speaking about the findings, motoring expert Aleksandrs Buraks said: "Drivers of luxury cars already have a bad rep in terms of what they're like to share the roads with - and our experiment found that BMW, Mercedes-Benz and Audi were all in the top five cars most likely to be spotted not indicating correctly.
"Nearly one in five BMWs our team observed didn't signal when they should have. Within our top ten car brands in the study, models made by Volvo, Toyota, Honda and Peugeot were all seen failing to use their indicators less than 8% of the time, a noticeably smaller percentage.
"However, even a tiny number of people not signalling can majorly disrupt traffic and make driving much more confusing and stressful than it needs to be."