Fishing rods, routers, umbrellas - unexpected things forgotten in BlaBlaCar

BlaBlaCar Ukraine conducted a large-scale survey among 140,000 users of the service and found out what users of the service most often forget in the car during shared trips.

This is stated in the BlaBlaCar Ukraine report, Ukrainian News Agency reports.

Every 12th passenger admitted that he had lost things at least once during trips, and almost 300 respondents left something in the car more than 10 times.

According to the results of a survey of BlaBlaCar users, both 90% of passengers have never left things in the car, and about 90% of drivers have not witnessed such situations.

At the same time, 1 in 12 surveyed users has lost things at least once, and almost 300 respondents have forgotten things during shared trips more than 10 times.

The report says that passengers left a variety of things in the cabin and trunks of cars - from fishing rods and jars of jam to white bathrobes and even British visas.

As a result, both passengers and drivers identified the same five items that are most often left in the car:

- headphones (12% of passengers and 13% of drivers);

- phones (9% and 13%, respectively);

- hats (9% and 9%, respectively);

- umbrellas (7% and 6%, respectively);

- glasses (5% and 6%, respectively).

Thus, almost half of passengers (46%) admitted that they were unable to return lost items, and more than a third noted that they always managed to do this, and 15% - sometimes.

At the same time, 4 out of 5 drivers surveyed themselves initiated the return of items to their owners.

The most common way to return was via Nova Poshta - this is how half of the drivers (50%) acted.

Others sent things via various delivery services, made arrangements by phone, organized meetings or returned forgotten items on the way, some passengers came to pick up things themselves.

Some of the drivers sometimes even returned to the drop-off location or handed over finds through acquaintances.

There were also unique stories - from returning "on the way back" to handing over through a gas station or music school.

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More than 26 million people in 21 countries use the service every year.

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