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To inform the thread, UK accident statistics from 2024 here: https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/reported-road-casualties-great-britain-older-and-younger-d

• globular-toast 8mo ago
  The shift from male to female is fascinating. In younger drivers accidents are disproportionately male, I guess due to high testosterone buffoonery but in older drivers it's disproportionately female. My personal observation is that older male drivers are much more slow and less confident whereas females tend to be overly confident and driving way too fast, especially the ones in huge cars. According to this women become more dangerous than male 17-24 year old drivers only when they reach 80+ whereas for men they only become more dangerous than female 17-24 year old drivers at 86+. I actually think more should be done about younger drivers than older.
  • Someone 8mo ago
    > The shift from male to female is fascinating. In younger drivers accidents are disproportionately male, I guess due to high testosterone buffoonery but in older drivers it's disproportionately female. When you correct for population size, I think you’ll see that difference largely, if not completely, goes away. There are more women than men in the UK from age 50 upwards (https://www.populationpyramid.net/united-kingdom/2025/ https://www.populationpyramid.net/united-kingdom/2025/)
    • globular-toast 8mo ago
      The statistic is per distance driven.
  • markstos 8mo ago
    One reason there are more females in accidents at the oldest ages is because the males are dead. In the UK, the average life expectancy for a female is 82.9 vs 77.9 for men, a 5-year gap.
    • myroon5 8mo ago
      The statistic is per distance driven
  • cucumber3732842 8mo ago
    >The shift from male to female is fascinating Is that like a dog whistle for "perfectly in line with stereotypes"? What I wanna see is how it maps vs wealth. Because I have a theory...
    • tim333 8mo ago
      I don't think it fits with stereotypes. I would have thought older ladies would be relatively safe.
      • cucumber3732842 8mo ago
        Nobody stereotypes men as oblivious or inattentive drivers. Excessively fast or discourteous perhaps but not inattentive.
• pyb 8mo ago
  Interesting to see the deep-dive on "younger car drivers", but not a pip about the old-age drivers. Yet we see from chart 1 that their casualty rate is far worse!