A survey suggests car park prangs are costing UK motorists £2.4 billion each year.
The study found that more than half of all motorists have either damaged another car, or had their own car bumped in a car park, with supermarkets the most common places for dents to occur.
Almost three quarters of these drivers have been the victim of a hit and run car park prang, in which they have returned to their car to discover it scraped but with no contact details left by the offending motorist.
The study, commissioned by RAC Direct Insurance, says that on average it costs motorists £293 to fix their car park prang and over 800,000 drivers have had to spend over £1,000 to repair the damage.
A tenth of all UK motorists, and one in five drivers aged 25-34, admit to driving off after causing a prang without leaving a note and the reasons given by men and women for doing a runner are very different: Three quarters of men don't think a small prang is a big deal, compared to two thirds of women.
Twice as many men than women drive off because they don't want their insurance premiums to rise. A quarter of male motorists, and one in ten female drivers, do a runner because their car has been a victim of a previous hit and run so they don't feel like they need to leave their own contact details.