Women's car insurance customers 'avoid tickets'

Women's car insurance customers are less likely to fall foul of the law than their male counterparts, a new study in Canada has concluded.

Price comparison website Kanetix analysed the data given by drivers searching for a car insurance quote during 2006 and discovered that men more regularly collected tickets than women for a variety of motoring offences.

For instance, male drivers were almost three times more likely to have been caught out ignoring a traffic sign and nearly six times more liable to have received a ticket for not wearing a seatbelt.

The statistics also revealed that men were three times more likely than women to have a speeding conviction on their record, a fact that could partially explain the accompanying accident figures.

Drivers searching for a quote confessed to having been involved in a total of 34,022 collisions, with male drivers responsible for 66 per cent of those accidents.

The figures go some way to explaining why women's car insurance is often cheaper, but Kanetix spokesman Gregory Ellis was keen to avoid reading too much into them.

"Of course, there is much more than just tickets and accidents needed to determine who's a better driver. But, it's certainly interesting to see the obvious gender divide in our behaviour behind the wheel," he said.

A study conducted by Brunel University late last year revealed that significantly more women than men complied with speed cameras in the UK.

On average, female drivers could save up to £80 on their women's car insurance with Kwik-Fit Insurance, research from last year found.

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