MAN OR WOMAN

Shannon News, 25 October 1927, Page 4

MAN OR WOMAN

WHICH IS THE SAFER DRIVER? "Which is the s'afer when driving' a motor car —a man or a woman? Woman is if the opinion of a Brisbane traffic constable counts for anything, says the Brisbane Daily Telegraph. And who should be in a better position to judge .than a 'traffic constable? In the day time, in the night time, in wet weather and in fine, in traffic jams and in open streets the traffic policeman has his eye always on the motorist as he flashes by or idles quietly waiting for his signal? And after years of experience at' his work a Brisbane traffic constable says that women drivers are the more careful drivers.

Some men in their lordly way say to their women folk: "No, you cannot take the car out, you'll do some damage, I'll take you for a run when I return home." The officer of the law admits, however, 'that women have one weakness. He says, "They talk too much at the wheel." Why Women are Safer. The traffic regulator puts the following argument in support of the "fair driver": — "They obey the signals at intersections at once." "They take the directions of the policeman on duty more seriously. "They give better direction signs. "They do not speed." The one crumb of comfort for the male is in the policeman's concluding words. "Of course," he says, "there is a certain amount of danger in women's inclination to talk when at the wheel." But he added "All things considered, women are much safer as drivers than men."