5th March 2008

Men Officially Worse Drivers Than Women | Cheap Car Insurance and Home Insurance from Confused.com

• Men are 151% more likely to be convicted of a driving offence than women
• Men are 156% more likely to be pulled-over for driving without due care and attention, or failing to comply with traffic light signals, than their female counterparts
• Accounting for more than 72% of all driving offences, speeding is the most common motoring misdemeanour

Men are 151% more likely to be convicted for a driving offence than their female counterparts, according to findings by Confused.com, the UK’s leading car insurance comparison service.

The statistics, which were recorded by Confused.com between January 2007 and 2008, show huge gulfs between the behaviour of men and women on the roads. While 2,305,374 male misdemeanours were recorded, ranging from death by dangerous driving to speeding, women fared better with 920,027 convictions.

Speeding accounted for 72% of total convictions. Although men were by far the worst offenders – racking up 1,558,908 offences over the past year compared with 749,168 for women – speeding accounted for 68% of total male offences, compared with a whopping 81% of total female offences.

Significantly, men are also 156% more likely than women to be caught driving without due care and attention or failing to comply with traffic light signals.

Debra Williams, managing director at Confused.com, said:

“The fact that men have been proved to have worse driving records than women must not detract from the fact that a worrying 3.2 million driving convictions were recorded on Confused.com alone, in the last twelve months. To make matters worse, most of these convictions were errors of judgement such as speeding offences and failing to comply with traffic light signals.

We would like to remind drivers that not only does dangerous and careless driving have a safety implication, but gaining points on your licence also has a detrimental effect on your car insurance premiums. On average, a driver with three points will see premiums leap 7%, rising to 25% for six points and 50% for nine points; and the number of insurers willing to insure a driver with nine points can halve.”

Whilst nobody is perfect, we would advise our customers to take more care whilst driving - planning your route, allowing extra time and taking into consideration elements such as the great British weather, should result in less accidents and a reduction in convictions.”

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