Sorry chaps, women are the best drivers
WOMEN have put up with jibes about their driving for decades.
Now a report claims to have finally put an end to the debate – with conclusive evidence that women really are better drivers than men.
Men are four times more likely to wind up in court for motoring crimes and twice as likely to make insurance claims, it revealed.
This is reflected in the fact that men typically pay £92 a year more than women for their insurance.
The average premium for women is £701, with men paying £793, according to comparison website Confused.com, which published the report. This is despite an EU law introduced in 2012 banning gender discrimination by insurers.
Official figures reveal that 585,000 drivers in England were taken to court last year for motoring offences. Just under eight in ten of those were men – outnumbering women by almost four to one.
Some 23 per cent of these offences were men caught speeding – significantly higher than women at 7 per cent. Men also outweighed women by five to one when it came to drink driving offences and were twice as likely to be driving without either tax or insurance.
And male drivers cost insurers more when it comes to claims payouts, suggesting they have been in more accidents than women.
In 2017, two out of three insurance claims were made by men, of which 17 per cent were fault claims. In comparison, only one in three claims last year came from women – 9 per cent of which were at fault.
And not only do men make more claims, they tend to be a little more expensive too. They claimed £3,271 per payout on average, while typical payouts for women were slightly cheaper at £3,121.
This could be down to the fact that men often own more expensive cars, with an average value of £8,654. Women, however, are driving around in cars with a value of £7,090 – a hefty £1,564 difference.
Amanda Stretton of Confused. com, said: ‘As a female racing
‘They are safer on the roads’
driver, I know women can hold their own when it comes to driving, and data suggests that they are in fact safer on the roads.’
The report found men are more likely to have bad driving habits. For example, almost one in four admit not indicating when switching lanes, compared with around one in six women.