Think safety and put a woman behind the wheel of that truck
Some of us knew it all along. Women are safer drivers, according to a study in Britain. If more women were hired for trucking jobs, the roads would be a lot safer, the researchers suggest.
That’s because men, who hold most driving jobs, are more likely to drive dangerously. This puts other road users at risk.
For the study, the researchers looked at injury and traffic statistics, travel survey data, population figures and gender figures for 2005 to 2015.
Men posed a significantly higher risk to others for five of the six types of vehicles studied, the researchers found.
For cars and vans, the risk male drivers posed was double that of women per kilometer driven. The risk was four times higher for male truck drivers, and more than 10 times higher for those on motorcycles, the findings showed.
– Source: HealthDay
