Men may not like to admit it but by their very nature they are prone to accidents. Their masculine personality makes them feel superior and they tend to take more risks resulting in more accidents. In contrast, the women drivers are much more cautious and careful and hence safe drivers. And biologically too there are no reasons to say that a woman cannot be as good as or even a better driver than a man. Further it has been proved time and again that girls have more maturity than boys of their age group. Of course, by nature, women are less aggressive.

Women always prefer to maintain order in whatever they do. Traditionally they are more responsible and show more concern for others. They tend to keep cool in stress and do not overreact. Statistically also it has been proved that percentage wise, women are involved in less number of accidents. A recent survey carried out by the well-known British Psychologist and Management Consultant Peter Honey shows conclusively that women are far better at:

• Treating everything that happens as an opportunity to learn
• Using mistakes as an opportunity to learn
• Learning from ordinary, everyday happenings; From things that happen by coincidence or by chance
• Using a partner or a buddy to help them to learn
• Improving the way they learn.

Today women learn to drive at a much younger age. In addition many homes today have two cars giving an opportunity to young women to acquire dexterity at the wheel. But this could also set the alarm bells ringing. May be more of our fairer sex drivers will become as careless and as reckless as the men drivers. Thus the women drivers, in future, may have the same driving habits as men. May be, we will achieve the equality of sexes in this sphere too.

The study conducted by the Reading University has, however, a finding that should be of interest to all male drivers. Women are twice as likely to have accidents at junctions than men. Furthermore, women older than 50 years tend to cause more accidents than men of the same age group. Of course, no disrespect is meant to our old matrons. At times it is observed that women behave in a strange fashion at the parking lots. It is perhaps the attitude of men that makes women conscious of their driving and at times become nervous and lose their confidence. When some male drivers say that it is a nightmare driving behind a vehicle driven by a woman, may be there is a problem with their attitude and not the driving of the lady driver ahead of them.

Women, at times, know the driving techniques, but lack the road experience to develop the confidence and attitude to evaluate the various situations one encounters on the roads. Besides, sometimes the male drivers are so impatient that their behaviour makes the women drivers feel guilty and unsure of themselves. This often leads the woman, at the wheel take wrong decisions and contribute to an accident. However, the genesis of the accident lies somewhere else.