Ill mannered, aggressive driving is contributing to the United Kingdom's accident statistics, according to Manchester Online. The British news source cited a study by the Zurich Insurance Co., which found that increasingly aggressive drivers are causing an increasing number of accidents. The cost of such accidents is more than ?11 billion ($20.75 billion), according to Zurich.

The survey of 1,000 British drivers revealed that most believed that their counterparts were ruder and more inconsiderate than five years ago. One in four said that they had to take action to avoid an accident with an aggressive driver at least twice a week. The most hostile drivers were said to be in London, where three out of four people complained that they had been cut off within the previous month. A third blamed the fast pace of modern life for the increase in aggressive driving.

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