5 Things You Probably Didn't Know About Men and Car Crashes
Reader Comments
Speeding kills!
Speeding is for losers! Speeding is uncool! Speeding compensates for other inadequancies!
highway in Utah
This is a great tool. I personally stay away from the major ones. Most of the drivers I've seen take way too many risks. Cell phones
user seem to not know it takes two hands, at times, to control their vehicle. And a clear mind before attempting lane changes. Blind spots don't get enough attention either. I can't say how many people see an accident about to happen, avold it and move on. But if others did have that accident, would a person tell their side of it to help bring justice.
On Women drivers
The other day while driving I was horrified to see behind me a women tailgaiting me while putting on makeup, looking down at the seat and at the same time yelling at her two kids in the back seat. Some women are always late and in the procces are trying to get to in 15 minutes that no matter how hard you try you could not get there in 30 minutes. Consequently I find that most of the speeders and tailgaiters are women who are late for one reason or another.
There is a balance here...
Of course men do speed more. True enough, however women are actually in more accidents than men are according to insurance statistics. These are usually not as damaging as those caused by speed.
Accidents are also caused by women that are more indecisive, can not keep up with traffic flow (i.e., everyone else around is going 60 mph and your insisting on going 50 in the left lane) and of course the general lack of awareness of their position on the road. This is of course not their fault as women do not have as finely developed sense of 3D spatial awareness and analytical ability according to most neurological testing done to date.
Things I Didn't Know, Because Not True
I am going out on a limb here and predicting that some of the stats above are false. Which ones? Those that say fatality rate declined by 48% and 45% in a four-year period.
How about it, Adam? Lapses in fact-checking happen to the best of us.
Those reported declines are too far out there: for them to be true, total auto fatalities would need to decline by almost half, in just the four years preceding 2002. That doesn't seem likely.
Cell phones
I wonder how big the decrease in fatality rate would be if drivers hung up their cell phones?
Thanks
All I can say is thanks so much for this helpful infornation! And for taking the highroad on this story(absolutely no pun intended) This is serious! We lose a lot of young men in my business to accidental death or permanent disabilility.
Judy Fields Davis
Youth and Family Development Counselor
Economic Opportunity Authority
On Men & Driving
Adam, either your data is old or it does not take into account the Metro-NY Soccer Moms (yes, with capital letters because they think they are above all laws.)
Now, if we isolated the analysis to the Metro area I think 4 out of 5 of your conclusions would change radically. Those women are KILLERS in metal monsters when the kids are not yet in the vehicle.
