June 25th, 2010

Diamond Insurance looked at data from over 2 million accidents over 5 years and found a difference between the sexes.

According to Sian Lewis, the Managing Director of Diamond “Women tend to be in more accidents at slower speeds, where cars are close together, while men have more high-speed accidents where it is easy to lose control.”

Also, women tend to get into accidents in the parking lot, at traffic lights and hit roundabouts while men tend to have more head-on collisions or hit a crash barrier. They also found that men and women drive differently. Men drive faster and aggressively while women tend to be distracted while driving.

There were some rather odd findings as well. Women’s cars are broken into more than men’s but men are more likely to have their car stolen. The research also claims that men’s cars are more likely to catch on fire and they’re more likely go drive through a flood. Ok, so women like to put on some lipstick while driving but men what are you doing to light your car on fire so often?