Comments on: He drives, she dies

By: Bob

Bob — Wed, 03 Feb 2010 15:22:15 +0000

I wonder will the FSA come out with a safety campaign now calld “She cooks, he gets food poisoning”.

Same logic.

By: paul

paul — Sat, 08 Aug 2009 08:49:52 +0000

Find it very sexist
and very unfair add to put out
because women drivers are as bad as boy drivers for speeding
as in racing there is girls that rwace and speed out there but they seem to be invisible.
Insuarnce is very unfair aswell with price .
18 m honda civic 2,890
18 f honda civic 420
Now if your saying thats fair i dont whats up with you but it is very very unfair
so insurance companies would want to open up there eyes to these girl drivers aswell and stop picking on male drivers…
how would girls like to see this on the paper

she drives > he dies.
not very nice
its very unfair.
hope it all gets sorted out as i am bulling over this .

By: Jan

Jan — Mon, 14 Jul 2008 08:22:11 +0000

What does this statistic say? Just that there are more couples driving and that men tend to be the driver of thise cars. And if girls are getting into cars of men they know have beend rinking they’re just stupid. Whole campagin is bogus and build on “facts” that I could have made as well, but the other way around. If this campagina had the words “he” and “she” the other way around then the RSA would get slapped for being discriminating.

By: Jim Jones

Jim Jones — Wed, 02 Jul 2008 12:45:55 +0000

The article states that The statistics show that between 1997 and 2006, 1,444 women and girls were killed or seriously injured in cars driven by males.
I wonder how many men and boys were killed or seriously injured in cars driven by males?

By: Dan Sullivan

Dan Sullivan — Tue, 01 Jul 2008 10:29:06 +0000

I may be stating the obvious here but since many of these accidents occur after pubs and niteclubs and such places have closed so how exactly are the young women meant to get home? Are we directing them to walk home, down our country roads with the drunk lunatics safe inside their car speeding around the place? Or in a cab maybe? Driven by a giraffe perhaps? Most taxi drivers are men too you know. A campaign that said don’t get in a car with someone is over the limit or drives at speeds excessive for the conditions for the pleasure of it, would be too nuanced for the RSA, but one that says baldy states men kill women is fine and dandy. And let’s not kid ourselves exactly how condition are the young women in to make a judgement that someone else is ok to drive when they’re three sheets to the wind themselves.

It’s a badly thought out campaigned designed to make people feel they are doing something instead of doing something.

By: EWI

EWI — Mon, 30 Jun 2008 19:27:06 +0000

Will I get a refund on my subscription?

Heh. You and me both

So, that leaves 9,998 other suckers who poined up for a subscripton to the IT…

By: CG

CG — Mon, 30 Jun 2008 19:12:10 +0000

You’re getting oooooold Sarah, the eyes aren’t what they used to be!

By: B

Mon, 30 Jun 2008 19:06:52 +0000

How many 17-24 year old lads drive around with a 38 yr old woman?

By: Dan Sullivan

Dan Sullivan — Mon, 30 Jun 2008 18:22:34 +0000

Sarah, more men are involved in fatal accidents true enough but what is the number per mile driven I wonder? Men still tend to be in jobs that involve more driving than women and more men still drive than women. I suspect that the numbers aren’t as skewed as we’re often lead to believe.

Fact is girls and young women appear to be attracted to the boy racer type and if they are and chose to get in a car with then what good will a goodie two shoes advertising campaign be?

By: Andrew

Andrew — Mon, 30 Jun 2008 16:15:22 +0000

In a car from Carlow to dublin last week, driven by man with several penalty points, at speed limit. 3 times tailgated, beeped and then passed at 30 kph over limit. All 3 drivers, young, female, sunglasses, pursed lips. ‘And they pay less for their insurance’, commented driver drily.