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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
National
Michael Goodier

Male drivers three times more likely to be in road collisions with pedestrians

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One in four pedestrian deaths on roads in 2021 was due to being hit by a van, truck or bus. Photograph: Andrew Matthews/PA

Male drivers are almost three times more likely than women to be involved in road collisions that kill or seriously injure pedestrians in Great Britain, a gap that has widened over the past decade.

A Guardian analysis of government road accident and journey data shows that in 2020 and the first half of 2021, 4,363 male drivers were involved in collisions that seriously injured or killed pedestrians, compared with 1,473 female drivers.

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