Comments on: Car Insurance Company Says Beware of Summer Girls http://www.buyability.co.uk/car-insurance-company-says-beware-of-summer-girls/ Tue, 31 Jan 2012 21:48:03 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.3 By: Nick Robinson http://www.buyability.co.uk/car-insurance-company-says-beware-of-summer-girls/comment-page-1/#comment-115 Nick Robinson Fri, 30 Jul 2010 11:44:13 +0000 http://www.buyability.co.uk/?p=1985#comment-115 This isn't actually true. When you control for miles-driven and number of journeys etc, men are actually less likely to be involved in car accidents than women. Here's what a study by Loughborough University found: "women are more likely to be the driver in an injury crash per mile driven. Only in the youngest age group (17-20 years) are men more likely to be involved in a collision than their female counterpart." See hee (PDF file) for the full study: http://magpie.lboro.ac.uk:8080/dspace-jspui/bitstream/2134/1079/1/PUB191.pdf The same study found little difference between genders in the time or weather conditions under which accidents occurred. This isn’t actually true.
When you control for miles-driven and number of journeys etc, men are actually less likely to be involved in car accidents than women.

Here’s what a study by Loughborough University found:

“women are more likely to be the driver in an injury crash per mile driven. Only in the youngest age group (17-20 years) are men more likely to be involved in a collision than their female counterpart.”

See hee (PDF file) for the full study:
http://magpie.lboro.ac.uk:8080/dspace-jspui/bitstream/2134/1079/1/PUB191.pdf

The same study found little difference between genders in the time or weather conditions under which accidents occurred.

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