PETROL station workers are more than twice as likely to have an accident while driving home as on the way to work. This is the first confirmation of a link between low-level exposure to petrol fumes and road accidents.
Even motorists inhaling petrol fumes at a self-service station may be more likely to have a crash, according to Jung-Der Wang at the National Taiwan University, Taipei, who led the study.
His team looked at the number of road accidents experienced by a group of 20,000 workers at the same company. Nearly half worked on petrol station forecourts and had therefore…
