Driving with lights during the day significantly decreases the risk of accidents.

Since the introduction of daytime running lights in Scandinavia, more and more countries recognized that having the headlights on during the day reduces the number of accidents and helps to save lives. The number of multi-party accidents (2 or more cars involved) in oncoming traffic was reduced drastically. Europe-wide field tests have proved that 50 percent of all accidents and 80 percent of all collisions at junctions, which happen during the day, happen because drivers either see each other too late or not at all.

Studies have shown the positive effects of daytime running lights

According to an EU study, more than one million insurance accidents a year could be avoided across Europe by driving with daytime running lights. That would mean 155,000 fewer people injured and 5,500 fewer road deaths.

And also in Germany it is official now: By the use of daytime running lights as much as 25% of all deadly accidents and 35% of collisions of approaching vehicles can be avoided. This is the result of a field test carried out by the Regional Road Safety Organization of Lower Saxony. In hazardous places, posters instructed drivers to switch on their lights. The result was a significant decrease in accidents.

Increasing acceptance of daytime running lights

One of the most famous German market research institutes, the "Gesellschaft fuer Konsumforschung" (GfK) in Nuremberg, was asked to carry out a representative survey of what German drivers think of daytime running lights: the results were overwhelmingly positive! 50 percent of all respondents said "yes" to laws prescribing the use of daytime running lights. 70 percent believe special lamps for daytime running lights with the same service life as conventional bulbs to be good or even very good.