Why women are 60% more likely to be injured in a car crash than men | BBC Science Focus Magazine

Women are more likely to get hurt in car accidents than men, according to a new study by researchers at Graz University of Technology (TU Graz), Austria.

Even when a man and a woman are involved in the same collision, the woman is 60 per cent more likely to be injured than the man, the scientists found.

“Our analyses show that women are injured disproportionately more often, especially in the chest, spine, arms and legs,” said project coordinator Dr Corina Klug.

Klug and her team analysed Austrian road accident data of around 2,000 road crashes from the years 2012–2024.

Then, they reconstructed individual accidents using virtual human models – computer simulations – to compare what happens to male and female bodies during collisions.