Too fast to live, too young to die… Telegraph.co.uk (blog)
Now new analysis of official statistics by the road safety charity Brake and transport group FedEx Express finds that traffic accidents are the main cause of death among people aged between 15 and 24. They also surveyed 2,800 youngsters and found more than half – or 58 per cent – of them had been in a car driven by a speeding young driver and said they didn’t ask the driver to slow down.
Most of us know that ‘boy racers’ are a bigger danger on the roads than women of the same age – but Association of British Insurers statistics on the danger difference between the sexes may still surprise. ABI spokesman Malcolm Tarling told me: “Males aged between 17 and 18 years old are more than twice as likely to make an insurance claim as other drivers and, on average, the claim will be three times higher than that for drivers aged between 30 and 59.
“Men aged between 17 and 20 are nearly 10 times more likely to be killed or seriously injured while driving than 40 to 59 year old males.”
