When it comes to making a New Year’s Resolution behind the wheel, it seems that improving our parking skills tops the list by quite some way, according to a new study.

Independent research questioned 1000 UK motorists on behalf of the country’s largest pre-17 driving school, Young Driver. It revealed almost one in 10 British licence-holders (9 per cent) believe they are a perfect driver with nothing to improve. But for those who did think their skills could be worked on, parking took the two top spots for the most needed New Year’s Resolutions across all age groups. Parallel parking was the most common thing motorists admitted needed improvement (35 per cent), with a further one in three (31 per cent) saying their reverse parking skills could be better. Being more patient and overcoming a lack of confidence also featured in the top 10 – along with driving in a more environmentally friendly way (12 per cent).

Young Driver also asked the respondents what skills they thought other drivers could do with improving come January 1st – revealing we judge other people’s driving very differently to our own. One in two motorists (52 per cent) said other drivers need to indicate more – although, interestingly, only one in 10 (10 per cent) thought that was a skill they themselves needed to improve upon.

Parking barely registered on the list of top 10 New Year’s Resolutions we’d like other drivers to make, with the second most popular response being that people needed to stop tailgating (44 per cent) – a fault only eight per cent of drivers personally felt they needed to work on. Not using a mobile behind the wheel took the third spot – but didn’t even make the top 10 list of resolutions we’d make for ourselves.

THE TOP 10 MOTORING RELATED NEW YEAR’S RESOLUTIONS WE WOULD MAKE FOR OURSELVES: CLICK HERE FOR TOP TEN TIPS