Quoted:Study: Smaller cars may be why crashes injure women more
https://apnews.com/article/us-news-charlotte-injuries-ae539580f0bde2d7d2b3989857cdfd02CHARLOTTE, N.C. (AP) The smaller, lighter vehicles that women more often drive, and the types of crashes they get into, may explain why they are much more likely to suffer a serious injury in a collision than men, a new study published Thursday found.Researchers from the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety, a research group supported by auto insurers, looked into whether there was some sort of gender bias in the research into vehicle crashes or whether body type had anything to do with the injuries.They analyzed injuries of men and women in police-reported tow-away front and side crashes from 1998 to 2015. Among the findings were that in front crashes, women were three times as likely to experience a broken bone, concussion or other moderate injury, and twice as likely to suffer a serious one like a collapsed lung or traumatic brain injury. View Quote
Anyone want to bet the "type of crash" is generally pulling out into oncoming traffic and getting plowed; or running lights.....and getting plowed?
Women around here seem to do this with regularity.
ETA: Oh and single vehicle accidents on side roads, running off the road while on the cellphone while at 55+
ETA2: from the article:: (oh and I live that in THIS case, there are physical differences between men and women)
“The numbers indicate that women more often drive smaller, lighter cars and that they’re more likely than men to be driving the struck vehicle in side-impact and front-into-rear crashes,” said Jessica Jermakian, IIHS vice president of vehicle research, in a statement. “Once you account for that, the difference in the odds of most injuries narrows dramatically.”
Women were also much more likely to suffer leg injuries compared to men, which may require car safety researchers to start building crash test dummies that account more for the physical differences between women and men, the researchers noted.I am going to make a logic leap..... To be hit in the side, I am going to say that 80% of the time, the person that gets hit in the side is the at-fault driver.
-Making left turns in front of oncoming traffic
-Pulling onto the roadway in front of oncoming traffic
-Entering an intersection improperly / failure to yield (running a light, stopsign or even thinking it is your turn to go, when the rules of the road clearly dictate it is not)