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Sheilas' Wheels: Women are better drivers

Women drivers should get cheaper car insurance premiums because they are safer on the road, female-only firm Sheilas' Wheels said yesterday.

The growth of specialist car insurance firms catering to women, which also include Diamond, has reflected a disparity in accident statistics.

Latest government figures show that the annual road casualty rate - which counts those seriously injured or killed in car accidents - is far lower among females.

Just 381 per 100,000 are involved in such an incident - compared to 555 men.

Sheilas' Wheels spokesperson Niki Bolton commented: "Women are statistically safer drivers; they have very different types of accidents and claims.

"You're more likely to have the closer to home, bumps and scrapes and lower value claims, rather than men who tend to have larger accidents on motorways, more fatalities, more involvement with third parties - that really hikes up the claim costs for men."

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