The sexist cliche is that women are worse drivers than men. Female drivers have been fodder for stand-up comedians and bumper stickers for many years, but an online insurance survey has shown that men are far worse drivers than women and cause more accidents and more serious auto accidents than women.
This study has revealed that more than 80 percent of all fatal auto accidents are caused by men and that more men die in motor vehicle accidents than women. Statistics from a recent calendar year show that men were involved in approximately 6.1 million car accidents while women in the same calendar year were involved in 4.4 million car crashes. According to these numbers, women are 27 percent less likely to be involved in an auto accident.
It is not only in the number of accidents in which men look worse than women. Men lead almost every category of poor driving including speeding tickets and other violations such as failure to yield and men outnumber women in the number of DUIs by a factor of 3 to 1.
There is no clear explanation for results like these. Perhaps it is testosterone. Nevertheless, insurance statistics year after year show that women are, in fact, much better and safer drivers than men. The results show up in auto insurance quotes as well where the average woman pays $698 for insurance and a man pays $765 for the same length policy.