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December 31, 2006

WOMEN MORE COMPLIANT WITH, SUPPORTIVE OF SPEED CAMERAS

“If the car in front brakes sharply just before a speed camera and then accelerates back over the limit, it’s a fair bet that it’s being driven by a man rather than a woman,” according to a new UK study. It reportedly found that women and men view speed cameras differently: women are “more likely to comply with them, twice as likely to want more cameras in their area and more willing to believe that they save lives.

“Significantly fewer women than men — 36 per cent compared with 52 per cent — believed that the purpose of cameras was to make easy money from drivers, according to research by Brunel University. It interviewed 1,100 people, selected randomly at petrol stations, to produce the most comprehensive study to date of how gender influences attitudes to speeding. More than half (56 per cent) of women said that they complied with cameras, compared with 43 per cent of men. A quarter of women said that they slowed down only briefly for cameras, compared with 39 per cent of men. The study concluded that road safety policy was flawed because it failed to acknowledge that male attitudes to speed were the greatest problem and that men were far more likely than women to drive at well over the speed limit.”

Posted by MVHAP at December 31, 2006 11:14 AM