OOOHHHH! Sorry but that is crying out for a response heheh..
This from the Federal Office of Road Safety
Link is broken,so has been taken down
In terms of type of accident, there were systematic age trends and, in some cases, age by sex of driver
interactions. A focus on sex differences alone indicates that among drivers classified as being at
fault, men were more likely than women to have experienced a frontal head-on collision or a rearend
collision, whereas women were more likely than men to have experienced a side-impact
collision (head-on left turn, right angle, or angle turning). The most frequent violations and errors
committed by the at-fault driver were (in turn) inattention, failure to yield right of way, improper
turn, following too closely, speeding, alcohol, and improper lane use. There were age differences,
and a sex by age interaction, for some of these measures. The primary sex differences related to a
higher likelihood that more male than female drivers were speeding or were intoxicated, and a
higher likelihood that more female than male drivers failed to yield right-of-way.
In interpreting the above findings, Stamatiadis focussed on sex by age interactions. He concluded:
“elderly female drivers have higher accident rates than elderly males, although younger drivers do
not show gender differences in gender patterns”, but suggested that “these differences between
genders may disappear in the future as current younger cohorts move into retirement. This
postulation is based on the fact that younger females today demonstrate driving experiences that are
identical to males in the same age cohorts” (p. 21).