WOMEN SAFER
AS DRIVERS OF CARS. Here is a pat on the back for women. For years they have been branded as careless motor-drivers, and as the cause of most motor accidents (says a Renter message). Now Mr- Godfrey Davies, chief of a vast "hire-a-car-and-drive-yourself" concern has announced: "Twenty per cent, more of the cars hired to men are damaged than those hired to women. The figures are based on an analysis of figures of accidents of my cars during the last eight years. They are calculated on several hundred thousand hirings and show beyond all doubt that as far as hired cars are concerned women are a better risk than men. "Moreover, the accidents in which women are involved are less serious than those when men are driving. One common criticism of women drivers is that they signal too often and. more inaccurately than men. That may be true, but it is only an indication of the care with which they "drive. "There are two outstanding things about women drivers in our experience. One is that they are more considerate toward a car than men, and the. other, that they drive less fast than men."
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Waipa Post, Volume 48, Issue 3479, 14 June 1934, Page 8
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