Male drivers are more likely to be involved in car crashes during summer due to the fact that they are busy watching girls in skimpy outfits.

A new survey has discovered that as hemlines go up, so does the accident rate among male motorists, with 29 per cent revealing that pedestrians are too revealing for them to properly concentrate on the road, claiming skimpy summer outfits were proving too much of a distraction.

21 per cent of male drivers also said that the increase in heat also left them hot under the collar, saying that their road rage increased as the temperatures soared with aggression being more common during warmer weather. Between the two contributing factors, a quarter of all make UK drivers admitted to having a near miss or summertime accident in the past five years, while their female counterparts polled a far lower 17 per cent.

The results have come as no surprise to behavioural psychologists, who argue that men are more easily distracted than women when they get behind the wheel, contrary to recent claims by males that they were better drivers due to greater ability to concentrate. Testosterone is seen as the likely cause, with billboards and wandering females quickly attracting the male eye from the road, while also increasing aggression levels – especially in the confined spaces of a vehicle.

The findings of the survey echo the infamous case of the Wonderbra billboard from 1994, where a pouting Eva Herzigova stated ‘Hello Boys, causing drooling males to veer of the road.