Scorching heat this summer has contributed to an eight percent rise of road accidents compared to last year.

Samsung Traffic Safety Research Institute said Sunday that it analyzed 1.86 million road accidents by subscribers to Samsung Fire and Marine Insurance between June and August from 2016 through 2018, and found that for every one-degree rise in temperature, the number of road accidents went up by 1.2 percent.

Thus the average daily number of road accidents was 6,958 for days with the maximum temperature of 23 degrees Celsius, rising to 7,540 for 30 degrees and 8,077 at 36 degrees.