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If you do not want to be laid up in a Sydney hospital bed over Christmas, do not walk home from work on a Friday evening between 4.30pm and 8pm.
Statistics released by insurance giant GIO show that Friday is the day of the week pedestrians are most likely to hit by a car - more than double the number recorded on a Monday.
And after the company's analysts crunched the numbers from 7000 personal injury claims, they found that the evening peak period is the most dangerous.
The end of the working week drive home is also the riskiest for motorists. Close to 16 per cent of all road accident injuries, including pedestrians, occur in the three-and-a-half hour period ending at 8pm on a Friday.
Strangely, the most dangerous day for cyclists is Tuesday when 18.6 per cent of accidents resulting in personal injury claims occur.The worst time for a cyclist is the morning peak between 6am and 9.30am when more than 29 per cent of injury-causing accidents happen.
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