Study finds women involved in fewer auto incidents

Women are better drivers than men, according to research done by kanetix.ca, an online quoting service for Canadas insurance marketplace. The results are based on a study of 2006s auto insurance shoppers, which looked at insurance shoppers as a whole, and then further broken down by gender. The study found that men are more likely to have a traffic ticket than women. It found that men are three times as likely to have a ticket for speeding less then 45km-h over the posted limit, 2.8 times as likely to have a ticket for disobeying a traffic signal and 5.7 times more likely to have a ticket for not wearing a seatbelt. In addition, it was found that of the 34,022 times that drivers collecting quotes entered that they had been in an accident where they struck an object or another vehicle, women made up only 34% of these. Of course, there is much more than just tickets and accidents needed to determine whos a better driver, Gregory Ellis, co-founder of kanetix.ca, explained in a release. But, its certainly interesting to see the obvious gender divide in our behaviour behind the wheel.