Driving is one of the most dangerous activities in our society, even more so than flying in an airplane or riding on a train. According to the National Conference of State Legislatures, “[m]otor vehicle-related injuries are a leading cause of death for people aged 1-54 in the United States. Worldwide, road traffic crashes are the leading cause of death for people between the ages of 15 and 29.”
Notably, an analysis of the numbers reveals that these deaths are not equally distributed between the sexes, and “[w]hile men are more likely to cause crashes, women are more likely to die in them.” NBC News reports that “[r]esearchers have found that females in the front seat of a car are 73 percent more likely than males to be injured in a crash and 17 percent more likely to die.”
Vice president of vehicle research at Virginia’s Insurance Institute for Highway Safety Jessica Jermakian said, “We’ve known for decades that women are more likely to be injured and killed in crashes [of the same severity]…And a lot of that has to do with their vehicle choices and the types of crashes they get in.”
These statistics are even more appalling due to the fact that some of these losses were preventable, as “[s]afety experts have known for decades that female and male bodies are impacted differently by car crashes.” Anthropomorphic test devices, commonly known as crash test dummies are used to “simulate human response to impacts, accelerations, deflections, forces and moments of inertia generated during a crash…Hundreds of sensors and transducers located within the dummy provide life-saving data to safety test engineers, measuring the precise physical forces exerted on each body part in a crash event.”
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