Show men safest drivers washington the perennial family argument as to whether man of woman drivers get into more automobile accidents can at last ba backed up with some facts and figures that andl cate sex differences records of man and woman taxi cab dryers in a pennsylvania city have been watched for an entire year by dr morris and helen U gardner of the of pann syhania the results reported in the person nel journal show that the woman taxi drivers were responsible tor three times as many accidents as men though judging by claims following accidents the women were more successful in keeping out of serious trouble thee men and women operated the same kind of car and all equipment was regularly overhauled both drove in stormy weather and in the same conditions the men however nere more es perlen ced on the whole alian the women for some of alie women ft ere not experienced drivers when hired but given a thorough course of training and immediately placed on cabs this would seem to be an im PS factor but the taxicab company records could not be kept in such detail as to show whether the new driver offsets inex peri ence with excessive caution or whether this caution oversteps over steps the mark and leads to an excess lva num her of cases of collisions about 2000 men drivers were on the employment rolls at a time and about forty women the men drove miles in the year and had accidents the women drove 1 miles and had accidents in terms of revenue the women bad I 1 three and one half times as many accidents per thousand dollars as the men A special study 0 accident costs in one representative month showed that there were claims tn the accidents of man drivers and four claims la cases involving woman drivers the claims indicate that women got into less serious than the men for the total cost of claims against men was as compared with 75 against woman drivers the psychologists conclude that the figures from the study favor the point of view that the present generation of woman drivers Is more sus to accidents than the present generation of man drivers they also state the extent to which this Is the result of relative inexperience in driving or of a sex determined difference in ity to accidents in traffic cannot be finally determined from an examina alon of the prison data the fact however that a sampling of women suffer more accidents when under the same conditions as a somewhat similar sampling of men Is established |