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Nose-To-Tail Collisions The Most Common In Australia: AAMI

Australian motorists may have a problem with tailgating, if the latest AAMI Crash Index is anything to go by. The insurer has concluded that nose-to-tail incidents are the most common in Australia, accounting for 28.3 percent of the collisions ana


Australian motorists may have a problem with tailgating, if the latest AAMI Crash Index is anything to go by.

The insurer has concluded that nose-to-tail incidents are the most common in Australia, accounting for 28.3 percent of the collisions analysed.

More than 75,000 collisions were scrutinised in New South Wales alone, which has now overtaken Victoria as Australia’s nose-to-tail ‘capital’.

Nearly 30 percent of collisions analysed in NSW were nose-to-tail, while the state was also the place one is most likely to be involved in a failure-to-give-way collision.

In Victoria, nose-to-tail collisions accounted for 29.4 percent of incidents, followed by parked car dings (21.8 percent) and failure to give way (20.9 percent).

Nose-to-tail incidents were also the most common in Western Australia, Queensland and the Australian Capital Territory.

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Top Five Collisions In Australia - 2015 AAMI Crash Index

  1. Nose to tail - 28.3 percent
  2. Parked car dings - 22 percent
  3. Failure to give way - 19.8 percent
  4. Collision with a stationary object - 14.5 percent
  5. Collision while reversing - 10.8 percent
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