Sep 24
Carnegie Mellon Offers New Research on Auto Accidents
There’s a new study by Carnegie Mellon with new findings on who the worst drivers are and aren’t. If you’re like most of us, you have a few ideas of your own about the shortcomings of drivers based on gender and age differences. Carnegie Mellons’ findings may prove a little surprising.
For example, young and old drivers are both more likely than any other group to get in an accident. But did you know that older drivers are more likely to die in those accidents than are young people? This has nothing to do with driving skill or ability but with the fragility of their bones.
Men notoriously snub their noses at women drivers but Carnegie Mellon research asks that men take another look.
David Gerard is a researcher at Carnegie Mellon. He says that, “20,000 men get killed every year behind the wheel compared to 6,700 females.”
Unfortunately, this new research has no effect on insurance rates as auto insurance companies use their own methods to compute rates, which is good news for some perhaps and not so much for others.
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October 12th, 2007 at 12:42 am
Wow! I\’m not going to let my wife read that one. I certainly get ribbed enough as it is on my driving. She\’ll tell me next that she\’ll get better premiums on our insurance just because she\’s female. Who knows where this will lead??!
Jerry
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