The time you waste in traffic revealed – equal to watching 775 Game of Thrones episodes and making 8,900 cups of tea
The real amount of time drivers waste sitting in traffic has been revealed - and it's costing you thousands of pounds
BRITISH drivers spend hours each month stuck in traffic on roads around the country.
But how much time are you actually wasting by sitting in gridlock on the motorway?
Go Compare have created a new tool that allows you to throughout your driving career.
And for those of us that have been on the road for more than a decade, the results might shock you.
Based on the stat that the average Brit spends approximately 31 hours in traffic delays each year, the comparison website crunched the numbers for a 40-year-old motorist with a 23-year driving career.
They found that driver would have spent a whopping 713 hours stuck in congestion, at a cost of nearly £27,000 in wasted fuel and time.
Using that same amount of time, the driver could have seen 474 games of football, made 8,913 cups of tea, or dithered away their time watching 178 coats of paint dry.
They could have completed 153 marathons, or even had a marathon TV binge and got through 775 episodes of Game of Thrones.
And even in their first year of driving alone, Brits waste so much time they could have seen 20 football matches, flown to Sydney and back one and half times, and completed almost seven marathons.
On top of the wasted time, traffic delays will cost new drivers just over £1,000 in their first 12 months on the road.
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Earlier this year, we reported how UK roads are the 10th most congested in the world.
While the nation's average saw drivers stuck in traffic jams for 31 hours each year, those in London suffered the most, with 74-hour delays over 12 months.
The most congested city in the world was Los Angeles with New York and San Francisco also featuring in the top 10.