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The Insurance Institute for Highway Safety also reported that from 1975 to 2003, female deaths in motor vehicle crashes increased 14 percent, compared with an 11 percent decline for male motorists during that same period. Insurance industry experts peg the rise in female deaths in vehicular crashes to more women obtaining driver's licenses than in the past and driving more miles than, say, 25 years ago.
Even so, it's hard to say women are better drivers, although they are statistically safer. Women have just as many accidents as men; however, they tend to be minor fender-benders. Men, on the other hand, tend to do the job properly when they crash, and as a result cost their insurance companies a lot more money.
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I believe the word you're looking for is chauvinistic.
I have a couple examples that have formed my opinion of women behind the wheel.
I was riding with a friend and he took a left across an intersection, after he was clear of the intersection we got slammed in the rear wheel by an Expedition driven by a 60+ year old lady. She didn't have a turn signal on and as far as we were past the intersection she had to cut across the dirt to hit us. She was headed the opposite direction and all she had to do was apply the brakes a little bit and she wouldn't have hit us. She should have gotten a failure to avoid an accident ticket on that one but Sanford city cops are not very good at judging what actually happened after an accident.
A friend of my sisters totaled one car when she hit the gas instead of the brake pulling into her yard (before she got her license) and slammed into a tree doing about 60mph (what the cops estimated but I doubt it was that fast). She ate the steering wheel with her bottom lip and my sister headbutted the windshield and broke it.
That same girl totaled her second car less than a year later because she was screwing with the radio and went off the road and hit a steep hill that spun her around.
The same girl also totaled her dads truck when she was giving her brother, me and my sister a ride to school while it was raining lightly. The light turned green, she gassed it and broke the tires loose and we went sideways into a power line pole. She ate the steering wheel with her top lip on that one, it was pretty gruesome because it was a half inch wide gap from her lip to about half way up her nose.
My girlfriend took off from a light shortly after getting her license and did a 180 in a crowded intersection because it was raining. Luckily she didn't get hit, just embarrassed.
My girlfriend shredded the side of a womans car from the front fender to the rear bumper because the traffic lights were out during an ice storm and she stopped, got waved on by the guy across the intersection and as soon as she took her foot off the brake and rolled maybe a foot into the intersection the woman blew through it and clipped her bumper. That one was funny because the Mustang had a chunk about the size of a golf ball on its bumper peeled up a little bit and that womans car was mutilated. Somehow my girlfriend got a ticket instead of the woman that blew through what had become a 4-way stop when the power went out.
My girlfriends mother stops at the end of entrance ramps when she gets on the highway.
I rode about a mile with a friend in high school and it scared me to death, never got in the car with her again.
My sister clipped her car shortly after she got the Dodge. She misjudged the size of the Dodge and went to back up, turned the wheel too early and scrubbed the bumper from the back of the front door to the rear bumper. That screwed up the back door on the car pretty good.
My mother has two pedal positions when she's driving: All the way down or all the way up. She also likes to stop late and make me hit my imaginary brake on the passenger side.
I could go on if I were to really think about examples from the past, those were just off the top of my head.
But even with all that, I still trust one of my female friends, my sisters and my girlfriends driving, they're all good drivers.
But I still worry when my girlfriend gets behind the wheel of the Dodge (it's normally only when I'm drunk or too tired to drive) because she drives a little 2007 Nissan Sentra and it's half the size of the truck. I worry about her misjudging the size of it when she parks or changes lanes or anything where additional mass could easily be overlooked.
I have a couple examples that have formed my opinion of women behind the wheel.
I was riding with a friend and he took a left across an intersection, after he was clear of the intersection we got slammed in the rear wheel by an Expedition driven by a 60+ year old lady. She didn't have a turn signal on and as far as we were past the intersection she had to cut across the dirt to hit us. She was headed the opposite direction and all she had to do was apply the brakes a little bit and she wouldn't have hit us. She should have gotten a failure to avoid an accident ticket on that one but Sanford city cops are not very good at judging what actually happened after an accident.
A friend of my sisters totaled one car when she hit the gas instead of the brake pulling into her yard (before she got her license) and slammed into a tree doing about 60mph (what the cops estimated but I doubt it was that fast). She ate the steering wheel with her bottom lip and my sister headbutted the windshield and broke it.
That same girl totaled her second car less than a year later because she was screwing with the radio and went off the road and hit a steep hill that spun her around.
The same girl also totaled her dads truck when she was giving her brother, me and my sister a ride to school while it was raining lightly. The light turned green, she gassed it and broke the tires loose and we went sideways into a power line pole. She ate the steering wheel with her top lip on that one, it was pretty gruesome because it was a half inch wide gap from her lip to about half way up her nose.
My girlfriend took off from a light shortly after getting her license and did a 180 in a crowded intersection because it was raining. Luckily she didn't get hit, just embarrassed.
My girlfriend shredded the side of a womans car from the front fender to the rear bumper because the traffic lights were out during an ice storm and she stopped, got waved on by the guy across the intersection and as soon as she took her foot off the brake and rolled maybe a foot into the intersection the woman blew through it and clipped her bumper. That one was funny because the Mustang had a chunk about the size of a golf ball on its bumper peeled up a little bit and that womans car was mutilated. Somehow my girlfriend got a ticket instead of the woman that blew through what had become a 4-way stop when the power went out.
My girlfriends mother stops at the end of entrance ramps when she gets on the highway.
I rode about a mile with a friend in high school and it scared me to death, never got in the car with her again.
My sister clipped her car shortly after she got the Dodge. She misjudged the size of the Dodge and went to back up, turned the wheel too early and scrubbed the bumper from the back of the front door to the rear bumper. That screwed up the back door on the car pretty good.
My mother has two pedal positions when she's driving: All the way down or all the way up. She also likes to stop late and make me hit my imaginary brake on the passenger side.
I could go on if I were to really think about examples from the past, those were just off the top of my head.
But even with all that, I still trust one of my female friends, my sisters and my girlfriends driving, they're all good drivers.
But I still worry when my girlfriend gets behind the wheel of the Dodge (it's normally only when I'm drunk or too tired to drive) because she drives a little 2007 Nissan Sentra and it's half the size of the truck. I worry about her misjudging the size of it when she parks or changes lanes or anything where additional mass could easily be overlooked.
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From: Clayton MI
My daughter was rear-ended sitting at a stop light because the GUY that was chatting on his cell phone didn't notice the BIG BLACK TRUCK had stopped at the red light........
I watched a man (drunk on his ***....) cross a center line and argue with a semi. he lost. It was really difficult to tell what kind of car the pile of scrap metal used to be.
Statistically, women are better drivers, with faster reaction times. I will grant you though, some folks just shouldn't have a drivers licenese......... in fact, it should be flipping illegal for them to even THINK about driving.
I watched a man (drunk on his ***....) cross a center line and argue with a semi. he lost. It was really difficult to tell what kind of car the pile of scrap metal used to be.
Statistically, women are better drivers, with faster reaction times. I will grant you though, some folks just shouldn't have a drivers licenese......... in fact, it should be flipping illegal for them to even THINK about driving.
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From: salem
You will just hear the broken axle beating the stub shat to a bloody pulp, and neither of the front tires will spin.
Get your axle fixed before you keep driving your truck around for crying out loud. It got you home on limb... but your not supposed to continue driving like that. Do you need a new stub shaft yet? Because if you don't yet, your going to soon as the inner axle will start damaging the ears on the stub.
Get your axle fixed before you keep driving your truck around for crying out loud. It got you home on limb... but your not supposed to continue driving like that. Do you need a new stub shaft yet? Because if you don't yet, your going to soon as the inner axle will start damaging the ears on the stub.
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From: Elk Rapids, MI
From my understanding, pulling the stub shaft is a big no-no. The stub shaft and the outer nut (tightened to proper torque specs -- 175-180 ft.lbs. I believe) are what essentially keeps the hub bearings together. Without that, I have heard of catastrophic failure.
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From: Lee County, North Carolina
I've heard that too. If you need to pull the axle because of a busted u-joint then pull the axle shaft and intermediate axle shaft and put the stub shaft back on the hub.