Many people listen to music, podcasts or anything else on their way to work, business or gym. But the insurance company If now raises the potential back of it.

- Headphones can direct attention and focus on something other than the environment and prevent you from hearing cars or bicycles that signal to warn you. You simply have a harder time assessing the traffic situation around you, ”says Irene Isaksson-Hellman, traffic safety researcher at insurance company If, in a press release.

On behalf of the insurance company, the market research company Yougov interviewed 3,516 people from the age of 18 onwards about the use of headphones in traffic. About every other person, 49 percent, state that they happen to do so. Among young adults aged 18-34, this is about 81 percent.

SVT's reporter Elin Schwartz tells more about the statistics in the clip - for example, in what situations we use headphones most often.

SVT reported · Do you think it should be prohibited to use headphones in traffic?

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