From: ChelseaTractorMan on
For those who think its older drivers who are dangerous the IAM
comment that older drivers are "considerably safer", the 8% of drivers
who are over 70 contribute to 4% of injury accidents while the 15% of
drivers who are under 30 contribute to 34% making young drivers 4
times as dangerous as old. The IAM are also worried about 50 something
men under work pressure and far too often seen arguing about the
accident (or worse) on the hard shoulder.

Torygraph report Jan 30 (I only just got round to reading!).
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From: Conor on
On 06/03/2010 14:01, ChelseaTractorMan wrote:
> For those who think its older drivers who are dangerous the IAM
> comment that older drivers are "considerably safer", the 8% of drivers
> who are over 70 contribute to 4% of injury accidents while the 15% of
> drivers who are under 30 contribute to 34% making young drivers 4
> times as dangerous as old. The IAM are also worried about 50 something
> men under work pressure and far too often seen arguing about the
> accident (or worse) on the hard shoulder.
>
> Torygraph report Jan 30 (I only just got round to reading!).

Older drivers tend to have a lot of non injury accidents so just quoting
injury accidents is a bit misleading. That's not to say that youngsters
don't but the figure quoted makes them look good.

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From: loopy livernose on

"ChelseaTractorMan" <mr.c.tractor(a)hotmail.co.uk> wrote in message
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> For those who think its older drivers who are dangerous the IAM
> comment that older drivers are "considerably safer", the 8% of drivers
> who are over 70 contribute to 4% of injury accidents while the 15% of
> drivers who are under 30 contribute to 34% making young drivers 4
> times as dangerous as old. The IAM are also worried about 50 something
> men under work pressure and far too often seen arguing about the
> accident (or worse) on the hard shoulder.
>
> Torygraph report Jan 30 (I only just got round to reading!).


Love the use of "contribute to"..

seems to me older drivers contribute to a lot of accidents they are not
actually involved in..

as always there's lies, damn lies, Statistics and Dhoug..


From: DavidR on
"loopy livernose" <ifyouwanttoemailme(a)askfor.my.address> wrote
>
> seems to me older drivers contribute to a lot of accidents they are not
> actually involved in..

I have always wondered about this and similar comment. How does a person or
a particular group actually contribute to accidents they are not involved
in?


From: Harry Bloomfield on
DavidR explained on 06/03/2010 :
> I have always wondered about this and similar comment. How does a person or a
> particular group actually contribute to accidents they are not involved in?

I would think this could easily happen and probably does a lot. I've
seen doddery old drivers crawling along a perfectly good road, yet
where it can be difficult to overtake them. Result lots of frustration
and less than safe overtakes.

Driver pulls out of side road without properly checking it is clear and
a another driver hits another vehicle in the course of trying to avoid
them.

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