Report: Women more likely to mistake gas pedal for brakes, but male drivers have issues, too LOS ANGELES - Women are more likely than men to mistake the gas pedal for the brakes, according to federal safety regulators. But before all those male drivers out there smugly stereotyping women as bad drivers, men are more likely to be involved in an accident, the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration said.

Drink drivers caught in Diamond Creek TWO Diamond Creek women have been caught driving more than twice the legal limit in the past week.

S.African minibus drivers compete to be safest Mangled wreckage from deadly head-on collisions is usually what lands South Africa's notoriously aggressive minibus taxis in the headlines, an image some drivers are working to change.

Putting Women In Driver’s Seat Auto sales data site TrueCar turns to only women drivers for its racing sponsorships.

DDB Berlin and Volkswagen Say: Don't Make-Up and Drive! BERLIN, April 16, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Given a shockingly high figure of half a million car crashes a year caused by women drivers applying makeup (in the UK alone), awareness of this underestimated danger ...

Young women drivers now deemed almost as dangerous as men by insurance firms Young men's insurance premiums are only about 25 percent more than young women's today.

Beware older women in parking lots: They cause two thirds of crashes where drivers hit the gas instead of the brake Collisions caused by drivers accidentally putting their foot on the accelerator were most common among those aged under 20 and over 76, the U.S government study found.

Julia Landauer: Women and Driving: Rise of the Women Racing Engineers! (Part II) Once you recognize your passion, grab it by the horns and make it happen. There's no reason that women shouldn't do what they love, and what they're good at, because it's currently in a male-dominated field.

Taxi drivers: Who is the safest of them all? Mangled wreckage from deadly head-on collisions is usually what lands South Africa's notoriously aggressive minibus taxis in the headlines.

Study: Most gas pedal accidents involve women Accidents in which drivers mistakenly hit the gas instead of the brake tend to involve older female drivers in parking lots, a new government study has found.