Politics | 11/13/2008 10:55 am
Study: Women Are Safer Drivers Than Men

A new study debunks the stereotype that women are the worst drivers.
Quality Planning Corporation, a risk-assessment company that aims to help auto insurers identify rating errors, compared the number of moving and nonmoving violations for both genders. They found an interesting difference in how men and women regard the rules of the road. The company concluded that men violated more traffic laws and caused more accidents than females. They also found that men were more than three times as likely than women to receive a violation in reckless driving. Another interesting statstics: Women drivers were about 27 percent less likely than men to be found at fault when involved in an accident.
"We were not surprised to see that men have slightly more — about plus-five percent — violations that result in accidents than women," said Dr. Raj Bhat, president of Quality Planning in a statement. "And because men are also more likely to violate laws for speeding, passing and yielding, the resulting accidents caused by men lead to more expensive claims than those caused by women."
Here are the top six traffic violations men make more than women:
Reckless driving
DUI
Seatbelt violations
Speeding
Failure to yield
Stop sign/signal violation























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