Female Drivers More Likely to Be Involved in Certain Types of Accidents

Tuesday, August 2nd, 2011 | Lawyer Marketing

According to a new study, female motorists are more likely than male drivers to be involved in certain kinds of car accident situations.  These scenarios include sideswiping and turning into the path of another car.  More surprisingly, female drivers are more likely than males to be involved in an accident with another female motorist.

The study was based on analysis of two-vehicle accidents between 1988 and 2007.  The results of the study have been published in the Traffic Injury Prevention Journal.  The researchers wanted to probe the gender factor in a traffic accident, although they were not specifically looking to see whether women make better drivers than men.  They were not expecting some of the findings.

The researchers expected that male drivers would be involved in more accidents, because male drivers account for 60% of all personal travel.  According to these estimates, the frequency of accidents involving male drivers should have been around 36%, and for female drivers, it should have been around 16%.

In contrast, the researchers found that in certain situations, female drivers were overrepresented by as much as 50%.  For instance, female drivers exceeded the accident frequency rate by more than 50% when both vehicles were driven by female motorists.  In some of the accident scenarios, female drivers exceeded the accident frequency rate by at least 25%.

These findings are intriguing to Los Angeles car accident lawyers because they point to the role of motorist exposure to different situations and their capacity to adequately react to these in accident prevention.  There are other factors besides drinking, speeding and distracted driving contributing to an accident.  Interactions between motorists are also a vital factor in preventing accidents.

 

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