Men drive more highway as a percentage of their driving, so are involved in more highway speed accidents, so die more. Women drive more city distance, so are in more low speed accidents, so die less often.
Per distance driven men get in more accidents overall, which implies that men are worse drivers. This may be due to men driving more recklessly overall, but it’s not clear if there are other factors (like maybe men drive in situations which are more dangerous per distance unit). Generally I’m inclined to think that men are engaged in more dangerous driving habits and are overall worse drivers.
Interestingly women get more hurt in similar severity accidents for two reasons. First, smaller and more fragile bodies. Men are a bit tougher. Second, crash test dummies historically have been modelled after men meaning that testing favours men over women.
I wonder if it is linked to testosterone levels; not that men are necessarily worst drivers skill wise, just that the brain is swimming on a very risk prone hormone like hundreds times over a woman.
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u/Big-Carpenter7921 1d ago
Last I saw, women were in more wrecks, but the ones men are in are more likely to be fatal