Show Women Driver Safer Safe Most men have the idea that they th ey eyan arc better automobile drivers driers than th an women and many wise cracks have been made about the supposed menace of lady drivers dr ers to traffic safety But Dut according to a recent report by b Dr Harry DC Silva of Yale he shoe is on the other oher foot oot As director of the drivers drivers' re re- research re- re research search bureau of the university Dr DC De Silva made a survey covering motorists of both sexes exes as a result of which he concluded that women are arc safer drivers than men He HI said in an address before a train ing school for license examiners We Ve found that while women drive about half the mileage of men they have hav only third one-third as many This shows that women are still safer drivers and that they the do not have fewer acci acci- accidents dents merely because there are arc few fewer er women drivers He also declared that young drivers drivers ers have more accidents in proportion proportion tion to the miles driven than older olde r ones For example motorists be be- between tween the ages of 20 and 25 had ha d three times as many man accidents as a s those over 40 years ears cars of age Those driving drig dri driven g alone were found to drive faster than those Navin having g other persons in the time car and those thos e driving dri slowest were generally fathers who had members of their them r own families as passengers passengers Dr De Silva's Silvas Silva s 's findings appear to t o have been made the as result of an a n impartial and scientific study of o E driving habits In spite of this how hoi v ever a good od many men will probably ably remain unconvinced that a woman is a safer driver than a male mat c of the species |