A disproportionate number of women are killed as well as injured in drink-drive accidents, according to the latest government figures.
Newly released data from the department for transfer (DfT) shows that in 2018 – the most recent year for which figures are offered – 20 per cent of drink-drivers (including motorcyclists) included in mishaps were female, yet women accounted for 34 per cent of casualties in drink-drive collisions – a figure that takes into account all those injured, including drivers.
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Men, meanwhile, were the driver or rider over the limit in 80 per cent of drink-drive accidents, however accounted for 66 per cent of casualties. earlier this year, researchers exposed women are generally at a higher danger of being killed or injured in all vehicle crashes. For example, a lady using a seatbelt is 73 per cent more likely to be seriously injured in a head-on vehicle mishap than a guy would be.
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The DfT’s data likewise exposed there was a three per cent boost in the number of drink-drive mishaps on UK roads in 2018 – as much as 5,890 from 5,700 the previous year. despite this, the number of people killed in drink-drive collisions fell from 250 in 2017 to 240 in 2018. This means drink-drive fatalities are broadly at the exact same level as they were in 2010.