Breaking stereotypes: women are twice as good drivers as men, says a new study, and they looked at THIS criterion

British scientists are behind the research published in the journal Injury Prevention, used their government's data on 14,425 fatal traffic accidents between 2005 and 2015. Accidents involving more than one vehicle were taken into account. Without assigning blame to any one driver, they counted the number of deaths involving drivers of cars, vans, trucks, motorcycles, buses and bicycles.

They found out that they are involved in the biggest accidents with the most traffic accidents trucks and buses, and motorcycles, according to their research, are for transport twice as dangerous as cars. Cyclists caused the fewest accidents that resulted in the death of other road users.

Compared to women, male drivers had car and van drivers twice the participation in fatal traffic accidents. Truck drivers had even four times higher participation as female truck drivers, and motorcyclists twelve times higher participation in accidents with a fatal outcome, such as female motorcyclists. Gender differences are minimal for bus and bicycle drivers.

"The overall aspect of this study is to look at the risk that someone behind the wheel of a vehicle on the road poses to others," concluded the study's lead author, Rachel Aldred from the University of Westminster in London. "But this is an aspect that is not addressed often enough."