Old 04-29-22, 12:20 PM
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Originally Posted by FredMau
There was a study in the mid 1990s that looked at 750,000 fire vehicle runs and found that "Lime Yellow" fire vehicles were 1/3 as likely as "Fire Engine Red" vehicles to be involved in "low visibility" multi-car accidents and 1/2 as likely to be struck by another vehicle in an intersection.
ScienceDirect.com (Elsevier): Journal of Safety Research (1995): Influence of color on fire vehicle accidents
To me, that's an extraordinarily compelling case for that particular color.

Those studies show that color works but not "perfectly".
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