TRAFFIC may be at a standstill this Bank Holiday weekend but even if engines are idling the pulses of millions of love-struck British motorists will be racing according to a new nationwide survey. It reveals that around half of all drivers take advantage of increasing highway hold ups to flirt with any road user who catches their eye and sets their engine racing.

The survey, commissioned by car manufacturers GM Daewoo to celebrate the launch of thei limited edition Matiz Flirt, found that while grid-locked roads seem set to inflict motoring misery on millions of drivers, for the fast growing army of roadway Romeos and Juliets traffic jams are not so much a source of frustration but an opportunity for some light-hearted flirting.

The survey revealed similar patterns of behaviour nationwide across different regions of the UK. However, drivers in the South of England took the chequered flag with four out of ten confessing they regularly flirted with other road-users compared to motorists in the North where only a quarter admitted to ever doing so.