Posted on 02/12/2021 5:02:36 AM PST by karpov
CHARLOTTE, 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.
Men and women crashed in minivans and SUVs in about equal proportions, the researchers found. But around 70% of women crashed in cars, compared with about 60% of men. And more than 20% of men crashed in pickups, compared with less than 5% of women.
Men are also more likely to be driving the striking vehicle in two-vehicle front-to-rear and front-to-side crashes, according to the researchers.
“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.”
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What would we do without all of these “studies” and their “experts.”
“Men and women crashed in minivans and SUVs in about equal proportions, the researchers found. But around 70% of women crashed in cars, compared with about 60% of men. And more than 20% of men crashed in pickups, compared with less than 5% of women.”
What I now understand.
Men and women crash minivans and SUVs at the same rate.
Women crash cars 10% more than men.
Women crash trucks at a lower rate than men.
Conclusion
Everyone should drive a truck.
“Conclusion
Everyone should drive a truck.”
There conclusion will be to raise the taxes on trucks so that men buy fewer trucks and we achieve gender equality and save the planet for the children.
I see lots of women driving big ‘ol SUVs too.
Manufacturers have to make the small cars to meet CAFE standards. So Fiat makes a ton of 500s to offset Jeep Cherokees and Dodge Durangos.
People need to buy a safe car. Go to the IIHS site before buying any vehicle.
It tells you how you will be maimed or killed when that vehicle is in an accident.
For years smaller cars have been killing men and women. Now that someone says the deaths are not “equal,” they go into a panic over the news.
Here’s a hint. Women are on average smaller than men, on average. So naturally women choose smaller cars.
What next? legislation to kill as many men as needed to achieve “equality” in the deaths?
Have ten kids and drive a 15-passenger van.
On the one hand, single women, even obese ones, cram themselves into tiny cars, probably for appearance’s sake. OTOH, married women are often seen driving massive “Mommy Boat” SUVs with their kids. Statistically, though, this makes a lot of sense.
Or get a 1970s Buick - a car the size of Montana.
Front-into-rear crashes. On their cell phones and checking their makeup?
Until it turns out that most of the accident initiators are illegal aliens. Then you will never hear another word about the subject. :)
My brother-in-law is a doctor with lots of ER experience and when he married my sister she was driving a mid 90’s Nissan Altima. He went and bought her a Ford Expedition and told her to drive it. She asked why such a big vehicle instead of my car? He said because I have worked too many ER victims cut out of small cars and very few in big vehicles, please drive the Expedition.
Of course, gerbalism being what it is, the author could mean the exact opposite of what the text says.
Driving one of those is like cliff diving and not knowing the depth of the water but you feel lucky.
“they look at the smaller car and think “it’s cute””
I see zillions of women in Coopers.
How about the fact that women usually being built a bit more ‘delicately’ than men are more likely to be injured by blunt-force trauma than a man, no matter the size of the car being wrecked.
Oh no! Have I written something ‘wrong’?
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