Worst Drivers on the road.
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This is OcUK, where misogyny trumps facts. And as every opinion so far has been based on anecdote, I'll join in with: every driver bar one who has tried to kill me on the roads has been male. Pretty much every one which has tail-gated me, carved me up, overtaken me when it wasn't safe, or done anything really dangerous has been male. I suspect there is little going on here beyond personal bias.
They use stats of final event, e.g. Male boy racer crash into island and killed pedestrian, totalled car and cost of insurance and liability = high.
Where as most incidents mentioned here are near misses.
These are the none stats insurance company can't gather. It's also unreliable as it can be down to personal situation and biased.
I don't think this quite accurate; the insurance companies statistics say that women cost less in accidents. - I think when you look at it more closely, men tend to write cars off whereas women just dent them. It costs more to replace a car than repair it.
My wife has definitely done more damage to our cars over the years. However when I was younger (and less sensible) I did a lot of stupid things that could have resulted in far more costly damage.
Around here it seems to be the taxi drivers who are the worst. - I assume that if you drive for a living you don't need to indicate and are allowed to stop wherever you feel like; the road rules are for the non-professional drivers?
If I notice gender at all then it's the fact that most Mini drivers are female, so you can forget about being thanked for anything.
Men in 4x4's on Motorways are always tailgating somebody and road rage from that group is standard, only last week some guy tried to ram me into another lane at around 70mph, after being annoyed that tailgating me (and another driver) didn't force me to move over soon enough (small issue of a lorry being alongside, duh).
Men in BMW's, much less road rage but about the same amount of tailgating and forget about ever being let out at a junction. Whatever their function in life, primarily it is to be more important than anyone else.
I did get let out once, about four months ago I think, the event is actually so rare that it is worth noting here as an exception.
Old people are the least observant and old women drive at speeds I'm pretty sure they are not capable of, I've always given them a wide berth so not really an issue.
Men in 4x4's on Motorways are always tailgating somebody and road rage from that group is standard, only last week some guy tried to ram me into another lane at around 70mph, after being annoyed that tailgating me (and another driver) didn't force me to move over soon enough (small issue of a lorry being alongside, duh).
Men in BMW's, much less road rage but about the same amount of tailgating and forget about ever being let out at a junction. Whatever their function in life, primarily it is to be more important than anyone else.
I did get let out once, about four months ago I think, the event is actually so rare that it is worth noting here as an exception.
Old people are the least observant and old women drive at speeds I'm pretty sure they are not capable of, I've always given them a wide berth so not really an issue.
Same but we guess ethnicity too
...the facts eventually come out?
Most people on the roads are **** drivers tbh; male, female, young, or old. If you assume the person in front of you is about to do something stupid, you won't be disappointed.
Old people do tend to drive far too slowly for the conditions though, and 20-30 year old females in company Audis and Minis just rush everywhere at light speed.
It's always certain people in Audis and Mercedes' who think they're great drivers but really aren't, too, making poor judgements and decisions like stopping on a motorway slip road to squeeze into the row of traffic, instead of just driving right to the end of the slip road and merging smoothly and gracefully
Old people do tend to drive far too slowly for the conditions though, and 20-30 year old females in company Audis and Minis just rush everywhere at light speed.
It's always certain people in Audis and Mercedes' who think they're great drivers but really aren't, too, making poor judgements and decisions like stopping on a motorway slip road to squeeze into the row of traffic, instead of just driving right to the end of the slip road and merging smoothly and gracefully
Lets face it, we all gave our moments - I've done some pretty stupid things in my time that could easily have ended in tears.
I'd like to think its s rare occurrence, but it only needs to have gone wrong once. Women in general seem to do silly,but nit dangerous things.
Young guys tend to do silly and dangerous things
Certain members of the older generstion tend to be the same.
I'd like to think its s rare occurrence, but it only needs to have gone wrong once. Women in general seem to do silly,but nit dangerous things.
Young guys tend to do silly and dangerous things
Certain members of the older generstion tend to be the same.
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Insurance companies don't tell you whether either gender is a better driver, they used to discriminate because statistically female drivers cost less in terms of accidents as PobodY said. You can present an argument that lower cost in accidents is an indicator of driving prowess but it might be interesting to compare the proportion of total accidents per gender to see whether the suspicion of some that female drivers are more likely to have a minor accident (which therefore tends to costs less) is borne out.
Personally I've seen terrible driving from people irrespective of their gender/age/any other factor. I do admit however to a certain feeling of nervousness when I see a black Ford Galaxy appearing near me on London roads - they seem to be apt to do something dangerous or just plain inconsiderate on a fairly regular basis. It's probably not even a real indication of the danger and it's an example of me having become mentally tuned into looking for them so everytime I see them do something a bit off it reinforces the stereotype I've got in my head - I don't notice the dozens of other times they drive perfectly well or the millions of other drivers who are equally rubbish because they're not all in a uniformed vehicle.
I'm not a high mileage driver and appreciate others have done far greater miles, and possibly even drive for a living. In my experience though I've had a minor encounter with just about every demographic there is, and I see no trend, particularly, that suggests that any one specific group is to blame.
I agree with the OP and most of you here, non of us are perfected drivers but woman are certainly the worse drivers by far.
I do roughly a 2 hour drive a day and see woman putting their lippy on , styling their hair whilst driving, I've seen woman rummaging through their handbags whilst at the hands of a 2+ ton MPV on a duel carriage way.
I see many woman driving too fast in wet conditions and pulling out far too late at junctions.
I've seen woman mount the pavement like they are driving a tank just to get past someone, and then they wonder why their wheels have been damaged afterwards.
IMO human evolution over the last 50 years has evolved too quickly, woman in particular - we simply need a separate driving test for woman aimed to make them understand that the motor carriage is a complicated and dangerous piece of machinery in the wrong hands, far more dangerous than washing machines, dish washers and sewing machines.
I do roughly a 2 hour drive a day and see woman putting their lippy on , styling their hair whilst driving, I've seen woman rummaging through their handbags whilst at the hands of a 2+ ton MPV on a duel carriage way.
I see many woman driving too fast in wet conditions and pulling out far too late at junctions.
I've seen woman mount the pavement like they are driving a tank just to get past someone, and then they wonder why their wheels have been damaged afterwards.
IMO human evolution over the last 50 years has evolved too quickly, woman in particular - we simply need a separate driving test for woman aimed to make them understand that the motor carriage is a complicated and dangerous piece of machinery in the wrong hands, far more dangerous than washing machines, dish washers and sewing machines.
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Inner city areas, by far the worst drivers are Africans and Oriental folk, Brum is a nightmare. Then when you get out of town its generally fat annoying chav women in MPVs or Old folks in daewoo and eco crap boxes. Oh and the full burka clad women with a limited field of view. (im a muslim and these women should be taken off the road imo).
I dont generally have any problems with any other demographics.
I dont generally have any problems with any other demographics.
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Inner city areas, by far the worst drivers are Africans and Oriental folk, Brum is a nightmare. Then when you get out of town its generally fat annoying chav women in MPVs or Old folks in daewoo and eco crap boxes. Oh and the full burka clad women with a limited field of view. (im a muslim and these women should be taken off the road imo
I dont generally have any problems with any other demographics.
I dont generally have any problems with any other demographics.
I'd say females tend to have silly crashes, low speed stupid manoevers resulting in minor fender benders. Males however tend to have highspeed collisions often resulting in injury and fatalities and written off cars.
It's more or less a fact that boy racers are boys, I think the fact that women have less confidence (shown in how they don't travel everywhere at 100, but will go 40-50 in NSL roads) proves that they themselves believe they aren't good enough to go at the speed limit and this subconscious results in a lack of care when it comes manoevouers. Whereas men are cockstrong and will try to go faster at any road they regularly travel until they get it wrong and total the car.
I think insurance prices back up this theory too (until recent EU gender neutrality legislation).
It's more or less a fact that boy racers are boys, I think the fact that women have less confidence (shown in how they don't travel everywhere at 100, but will go 40-50 in NSL roads) proves that they themselves believe they aren't good enough to go at the speed limit and this subconscious results in a lack of care when it comes manoevouers. Whereas men are cockstrong and will try to go faster at any road they regularly travel until they get it wrong and total the car.
I think insurance prices back up this theory too (until recent EU gender neutrality legislation).
I'm a taxi driver and obviously spend a massive chunk of my day driving. It's absolutely terrifying what I see on the roads on a daily basis.
There are some excellent female drivers around but, I have to say, the majority are absolutely hopeless. Most have zero road sense or awareness of what's going on around them and the main culprits I would say are in the 17-30 age bracket. It's truly frightening to see them looking down to their lap and clearly texting or posting to Facebook/Twitter whilst in control of a moving vehicle. The amount of times I've had to hit the brakes or swerve out of the way whilst they obliviously veer over into my lane whilst doing this is staggering.
Old drivers aren't much better for entirely different reasons. Far too hesitant/slow and I'd be fully behind any ruling to force people to retake their test at a certain age.
As for the car which seems to contain most of Britain's poor drivers. Well, there's only one winner - the Nissan Micra.
There are some excellent female drivers around but, I have to say, the majority are absolutely hopeless. Most have zero road sense or awareness of what's going on around them and the main culprits I would say are in the 17-30 age bracket. It's truly frightening to see them looking down to their lap and clearly texting or posting to Facebook/Twitter whilst in control of a moving vehicle. The amount of times I've had to hit the brakes or swerve out of the way whilst they obliviously veer over into my lane whilst doing this is staggering.
Old drivers aren't much better for entirely different reasons. Far too hesitant/slow and I'd be fully behind any ruling to force people to retake their test at a certain age.
As for the car which seems to contain most of Britain's poor drivers. Well, there's only one winner - the Nissan Micra.
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Is that the 74 at Hamilton junction? I had a guy in a 520d, a white one too, come flying past me as I was actually 70% into the right hand lane. He must have been totally on the chevrons to do it to be honest.
He was too good to have sat in he slip road that is marked on the road for the best part of a mile.