So far this year, Europeans have forgotten a total of 23,000 objects during their taxi journeys and Spain is the European country with the most losses; Specifically, a total of 2,212 belongings have been forgotten in Spanish taxis.
As curiosities, among the most striking omissions stand out the ashes of a deceased, or even a wedding dress, according to the study carried out by Free Now when analyzing the millions of trips made through the platform during this year.
Among the most common items that Europeans leave in taxis top the list mobile phonesfollowed by the portfolio with the documentation and the bag.
In addition, it should be noted that the Asturian cities of Oviedo, Gijón and Avilés are second in the ranking of the 10 European cities where taxi users are more clueless. For their part, Valencia and Seville also make a hole in this list, occupying the seventh and ninth position respectively.
This analysis also shows the time slots in which more oversights occur. Mondays at 11 am is the day when most goods are forgotten; followed by weekends, between 11am and 2pm. In terms of seasons, summer and especially during the vacation period, people pay less attention to their belongings and it has been observed that, specifically in the month of July this year, there has been an increase in the loss of objects due to share of taxi users of 75% compared to July 2021.
Among the most common items that Europeans leave in taxis, mobile phones, sFollowed by the portfolio with the documentation and the bagbut also jackets, glasses, headphones, suitcases, jewellery, umbrellas and, closing the list, the shopping bag.
But sometimes users forget about rare objects and some of them very strange. In the list of the most curious objects that users have lost, we can find articles as peculiar as a wedding dress, an urn with the ashes of a relative, a bag full of sex toys and even living things: one user forgot three live lizards, and another his own grandmother.