Women's Car Insurance
Machines oblivious to women's charms
Fri, 18 Nov 2005
The number of women drivers getting speeding fines is on the increase, because machines are unyielding to the feminine charms, it has been claimed.
Figures for the most extreme speeding cases over the past five years in Scotland reveal that female drivers have been doled out an increasing number of fines, whereas numbers given to men have lessened.
The AA Motoring Trust said that in the past the fairer sex may have been able to talk their way out of prosecution when stopped by police, but this was not the case when snapped by a speed camera.
"When speeding tickets were only given out by police officers, I suspect you were more likely to get told off if you were a woman and more likely to get a court summons if you were a man. But cameras can't discriminate," Andrew Howard, head of AA road safety, told the Scotsman.
When asked to comment on the report however, police chiefs dismissed that claim as "churlish", "sexist" and "without foundation".
Although male drivers still make up the majority of the most serious speeding offences in Scotland, those by female drivers increased by 26 per cent between 1998 and 2003 to 1,753.
Women landing speeding fine convictions, leading to points being added to a motorist's license, can result in raised women's car insurance costs.
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