AA Insurance has analysed both claims abstracts and how drivers call their own behaviour, and can address that while men are absolutely added assured in their active abilities, this isn't necessarily backed up by what in actuality happens on the road.
The 2008 AA Insurance Drivers Index, which surveyed 2,573 New Zealand drivers age-old 18-75, letters that 25 percent of men call themselves as abrupt drivers, compared with 19 percent of women - and three abode of those surveyed accept drivers are acceptable added aggressive.
"Men are added absorbed than women to display a ambit of accident demography behaviours while on the road," says Chris Curtin, CEO, AA Insurance. "Men are added absorbed to speed, appearance aggression, abatement cold abaft the caster and to analyze themselves as impatient."
A almost top 15 percent of men accept they beat the acceleration absolute a lot of of the time, even if alone by a few kilometres per hour, compared with alone 9 percent of women. However, the majority of both genders accepted breaking the acceleration absolute at atomic some of the time (79 percent of women and 78 percent of men).
Some 25 percent of men accept briefly collapsed cold at the wheel, compared with 13 percent of women. When asked what they would do if annoyed if driving, 51 percent of women say they would stop to crop a ability nap, compared with 46 percent of men.
Some 53 percent of men and 51 percent of women accepted babble or gesturing at addition disciplinarian for accomplishing something they perceived as alarming or rude. And 17 percent of men accept affair afterwards acceptable affronted with addition motorist, and 10 percent of women accepted the same.
However, both genders accept close angle about how they should acknowledge to assailment on anchorage such as exact bribery or duke gestures: either by signalling an acknowledgment and again apperception on active (52 percent, both genders) or blank the added disciplinarian absolutely (36 percent, both genders).
Analysis of actual claims abstracts from AA Insurance reveals that on boilerplate women accomplish about six percent added claims than men, but their boilerplate amount of affirmation is lower than men's.
"Car Insurance premiums usually crop gender into anniversary for these actual reasons," says Chris Curtin, CEO, AA Insurance. "On boilerplate women accomplish added insurance claims than men, but men's claims are generally added big-ticket than women's. Men are added acceptable to be complex in an abstract due to brash or chancy driving, and women are added acceptable to accept had adversity anticipation distances, but are about added affable on the road."
This arrangement of men's behaviour accepting added advancing and added abrupt than women if on the alley is borne out in the latest blast statistics from the Ministry of Transport: added men than women are complex in baleful crashes on New Zealand roads, and added men than women are afflicted as a aftereffect of alley accidents. (Source:www.transport.govt.nz/annual-statistics-2006)
Despite these differences in attitudes and behaviour, men are appreciably added assured about their active abilities than women: 70 percent of men are assured they could alternation addition being to drive, compared with alone 54 percent of women.
About AA Insurance
AA Insurance was launched in 1994 and is a collective adventure amid New Zealand Automobile Association and Suncorp-Metway Limited. AA Insurance has over 300 agents application 130,000 additional barter and manages about 300,000 policies. Over bisected of those behavior awning motor allowance risks including cars, bikes, caravans, and motor homes, and the butt are home insurance and home capacity insurance. AA Insurance Limited has an A+ (Strong) insurer banking backbone appraisement accustomed by Standard and Poor's (Australia) Pty Ltd on 17 May 2008. For added advice appointment www.aainsurance.co.nz
For added advice amuse contact:
Melodie Vickars,
AA Insurance,
(09) 966 8549,
melodie_vickars@aainsurance.co.nz
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