I was shocked to read a report that said the average British driver takes 730 risks a year.

That’s two every day. So virtually every time I get in my car I am likely to take a risk.

This seemed a bit extreme so I went down their checklist of 10 most common unnecessary risks taken behind the wheel.

Here they are:

Driving too fast, eating, making rude gestures to other motorists, using a phone, trying to work the satnav, jumping red lights, not wearing a seat-belt, watching cars behind rather than ones in front, weaving in and out of traffic and applying make-up while driving.

Well, pardon me for being a Goody Two-Shoes, but I’m not guilty of any of those.

The only time my speed is pushed is on the motorway, that place of permanent madness where an occasional touch of the accelerator is the only way to get out of the way of a driver who left his brain in his lunchbox.

Or is he eating it while sending texts and overtaking on the inside?

I am, of course, the best driver in the world, apart from Lewis Hamilton. And I have come to the conclusion that the risks I face while behind the wheel are those posed by other people.

Don’t we all feel like that?