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Sex Differences

Fact

LTSA & Police Myth
Men drive more and have fewer injury crashes but more fatalities per km. Women’s fatality rates are increasing. Women are safer drivers than men!

The New Zealand data shows young men are high risk:

 

The amount of road travel by each age group and sex affects these risks. When adjusted for distance-driven, Australian males have more fatal crashes than females but females have more serious-injury crashes than males. Female crash-rates are increasing.1

 


1Australian Transport Safety Bureau

 

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