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39 Women's Issues in Highway Safety Summary of the Literature Susan A Ferguson and Keli A
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it is important to note that although some physiological differences may account for these trends, variations in crash rates and injuries have a lot to do with when, where, how, and what women drive, as well as how much they drive. Any discussion of gender differences also should recognize the considerable variations as a function of driver age (Evans 2004)
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RISK PERCEPTION AND RISKY DRIVING A number of studies have shown that men rate the crash risk of driving situations lower than do women. Trankle et al.
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proportion of speed-related crashes to all crashes was highest among 15- to 20-year-old men (National Highway Traffic Safety Administration 2004a)
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INJURY PROPENSITY IN CRASHES OF SAME SEVERITY A paradox exists when motor vehicle injury and fatality rates among men and women are examined. Women are more prone to injury in a crash, but men sustain most of the serious injuries and fatalities because men tend to drive more miles than women and their crashes tend to be more severe (Li et al.
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injuries. These data also revealed that women have a higher propensity for skeletal chest injuries at lower crash severities.
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relative to poorly positioned ones were similar for men and women. However, fewer men in the study had adequately positioned head restraints, so for them the effect was not significant.
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women, those who were unrestrained were at greater risk of having low-birth-weight babies and maternal bleeding. They were nearly three times more likely to experience a fetal death.
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more likely to be injured and die, although this gap narrows among older drivers. Pregnancy has not garnered a lot of attention among highway safety researchers.
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tion Relative to the Driver's Head in Rear-End Collisions. Accident Analysis and Prevention, Vol.
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Conference of the Association for the Advancement of Automotive Medicine, Charlottesville, Va. Klinich, K
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Trankle, U., C Gelau, and T
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