Our happy hour fact to amaze your drinking buddies with.

The summertime is the most dangerous season for driving, with the risk of getting into an accident being highest on the Fourth of July.

A recent survey of drivers resulted in 83 percent of respondents answering that winter is the most dangerous season to get behind the wheel. However, the facts don't bare this out. In fact, one in three traffic fatalities occurs during the summer months, with the Fourth of July usually leading the way, in terms of total driving deaths.

"Americans' sense of seasonal driving risk is skewed," Tom Horan of the University of Minnesota's Center for Excellence in Rural Safety (CERS), which conducted the survey, told Live Science. "We are wary of winter driving but let our guard down during summer holidays, when fatalities are most likely to occur."

So, please embrace safety and try to stay off the roads as much as possible this holiday weekend. Might we instead suggest playing with fireworks?