Women's safe driving 'likely to go unnoticed'

The majority of drivers believe that females are less likely to put their women's car insurance premiums at risk than their male counterparts, a survey has shown.

A study conducted by charity Brake and breakdown service Green Flag found that almost half of respondents believed that men were more dangerous behind the wheel than women, while 42 per cent saw little difference between males and females, the Telegraph reports.

Some eight per cent of respondents said they saw female drivers as being more likely to jeopardise their women's car insurance by being a menace on the roads.

Statistics compiled by the Home Office last year showed that 97 per cent of motorists who were found to have a conviction for dangerous driving were male, highlighting that most motorists are unaware that female drivers make up a tiny portion of convictions.

A Brake spokesman told the publication: "It's all about perception. People think that women are as bad drivers as men, which is not what the statistics say."

In addition, a study by moneysupermarket.com recently showed that female drivers were half as likely to drive without women's car insurance cover as men.

Kwik-Fit Insurance was named the cheapest women's car insurance provider of 2006 by independent research in 2006.

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