WOMEN DRIVERS.

Press, Volume LXVI, Issue 19889, 28 March 1930, Page 2

WOMEN DRIVERS.

WHERE THEY FAIL. Women make worse drivers than men because they cannot forget the traditional privileges of their sex when they got behind a steering wheel. So said Dr. E. B. Turner, of the Medico-Legal Society, of London, before a recent joint meeti&g of that Society wtih another medical organisation, the Hunterian Society, of the same city. When two automobiles arrive at. the same corner at the same, instant or when one is trying to , pass another under difficult circumstances, if one driver is a woman she is apt to expect, Dr. Turner stated, the old-world courtesy which is still an ideal even if not always observed. If the other driver does not act accordingly,} something often impossible in the press of modern 'traffic/ there is likely to be an accident. Some women drivers, Dr. Turner admitted, are among the best on the roads; having conquered this traditional habit 'of expecting unusual' consideration from everybody and then being able to use in ifoeir" 'driving the quickness; of perception and movement which is often a feminine trait. But too many women drivers apparently continue, the doctor stated, to expect everyone and everything to get out of tihelr Vay, '• Education, experience, and the' gradual decay of habits of deference in other activities probably are acting, Dr. Turner admits, to correct present faults and to improve the gaalafr af wome» flriir—