Car insurance news
13/03/2009

Women drivers get cheap insurance because…

Why is car insurance for women cheaper? Because the majority of car accidents involving women are slow speed shunts and although men have fewer accidents, according to the ABI those accidents are usually at higher speeds and are more severe as a consequence.

To prove that point, an accident has been reported in
the Mail Online that looks catastrophic.

The British couple were in a hired Ford Focus driving through the hilly landscape near Marbella in Spain when the 60-year-old male driver mistook the accelerator for the brake.

The car sped up, left the road, broke through a wall and then flew through the air.

It came to rest 30ft below having landed in the stairwell entrance to an apartment. Fortunately, the couple emerged unhurt, but the front porch of the apartment was destroyed and the car was a write off.

A local police spokesperson said, "It's certainly not the standard type of road traffic accident we get called to."

An onlooker said, "They fell from such a height I thought at first part of a plane had fallen out of the sky.

"The fact the couple inside walked away without serious injury defies logical explanation."

The cost to the car's motor cover provider for this crash would have been considerable and this would have been without a compensation claim for personal injury. So, this is why car insurance for women is cheaper.