British poll name French as world's worst drivers

Our closest neighbours in France have been singled out as having the 'worst drivers on the planet' in a poll of 5,000 British tourists. The survey, undertaken by social networking site WAYN.com, put French drivers in pole position, followed by Italy, India, Spain and Turkey. Not only were French drivers highlighted by the survey as the worst, but France also topped the table as the worst country to drive in; the 5,000 surveyed obviously hadn't sampled the M25 or M1 on a bank holiday, then.

According to the WAYN.com survey the average Brit has driven on foreign soil more than ten times. However, it's clear that they must be viewing Britain and British drivers through somewhat rose-tinted spectacles. The French were singled out for their 'inconsiderate or aggressive driving, failure to signal, making rude hand gestures and shouting expletives'.

Sound familiar anyone? That could be any daily drive in the UK.

It seems British drivers' behaviour when abroad might have something to do with the French people's behaviour to us on the road; around 13% of the polled UK drivers having had an accident abroad and 15% having been pulled over for speeding. More distressingly, one in twenty polled admitted having driven over the legal alcohol limit while abroad. Perhaps we should stop pointing fingers at our foreign friends and take a look at our own driving standards instead..