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Who drives better: men or women?
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Similar results were obtained in Finland among the local population back in 2005. The researchers analyzed the behavior of 40,000 drivers and female drivers. It turned out that women are more attentive to the rules, value safety and are less likely to get into accidents.
There are other data as well. In the English-language media, they mention a study by Michael Sivak and Brandon Schettl, which supposedly proves that women are more dangerous behind the wheel than men. However, in the original work of Spivak and Schöttle, there is no such conclusion, but it is indeed written that women get into accidents more often than expected. The researchers looked at accidents that occurred between 1988 and 2007 and found how often men and women should have been involved in accidents with the same driving skills, based on mileage. And the number of actual accidents that happened to women behind the wheel exceeded the number expected: accidents involving two women were reported more often than accidents involving two men.

Unfortunately, it's not just cars that suffer from accidents. In 1993, researchers found that in America, accidents involving men were more likely to result in fatalities. Crashes involving female drivers are less likely to result in fatalities. American women are also more likely to report an accident to the police.

Similar findings were found by British researchers in 2020 among the local population. Crashes involving men are twice as likely to be fatal as those involving women in Britain. True, there is an exception: women are more often involved in accidents with buses. In Russia, there are no official statistics that would show which sex is more likely to cause deaths in a car accident.

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