A new report from the European Transport Safety Council ( www.etsc.eu ) published this week suggests that gender is a factor that we need to consider more fully in road safety. Across the European Union, 49% of the population is male and 51% female. Yet, if we look at road deaths, 76% are men and 24% women. Men are far more likely to die as car drivers or passengers than women. Yet women are more at risk as pedestrians and public transport users.

In Great Britain over 90% of offences on the road are committed by men.

So, if we want to have safer roads, we need to achieve a more female approach to driving and road use. Once again, the future ought to be female.