Difference between men and women drivers

We just celebrated a public holiday and as usual lots of people
travelled outstation either to be with their family or on holiday.
The papers have been carrying articles of road accidents daily.
Do men cause more accidents or are women the culprits?

Here's an article I came across in a Clove pullout of The Star
paper on the difference between men and women drivers.
Happy reading.

If men are from Mars, women are from a planet where they
don't have roundabouts, according to new research into the
way the different sexes bump their cars.

Women drivers may not deserve most of the criticism that
comes their way, almost invariably from men. But they do
have problems when it comes to navigating the circular
junction, reports Martin Wainwright from London.

Data from 125,000 road accidents in Britain last year shows
that a disproportionate number of women come to grief
while trying to enter or leave roundabouts.

- Hovering or finally going at the wrong moment because of
an impatient (an probably male) tailgater is thought to
account for much of the difference.

- Women drivers also bump into things in car parks more
frequently than men (although this figure may be distorted
by the fact that they are more likely to undertake the
weekly shop.)

- Scrapes on pillars in underground office car parks are more
evenly divided (although there are some indications that
women are so careful not to scrape the car in one
neighbouring bay that they hit the car in the other.)

Male accidents in the survey were generally more serious
and likely to involve crashing into something head-on.

Aggressive driving, lack of finesse or poor judgment made
walls, trees and lamp-posts almost equally vulnerable to
men, but at little risk from women.

Tanzie Oliver, the managing director of elephant.co.uk, said:
"Women tend to be in more accidents at slower speeds,
where cars are close together, while men have more high-
speed accidents.

"Our research suggests the way men and women drive is
different. It appears that men drive faster and more
aggressively than women, while women are more easily
distracted than men behind the wheel of a car."
- Guardian News Service