“They take themselves for pilots, the proof that not”

A sweet winter sun shines on the streets of the Marseille and a motorcycle goes to (too) tightly. Under the helmet, good chance that it is a man. According to road safety, 84 % of fatal road accidents were caused by men in 2024. And men are also the most numerous to die (78 % of deaths in 2024). A statistic which is confirmed from year to year and which does not surprise Lison, a thirty -something that is about to ride its bike.

” For what ? Because I think they are stupid, ”cuts the young woman short. “They take themselves for pilots, then come to tell us” woman behind the wheel dead at the turn “. The proof that not “, supports the Marseillaise who frying regularly with” stuffed friends who take the road and get angry if they are taken their key. Well, it can happen with some friends, but really less ”she observes.

For Pat ‘and his partner Marie, biker gloves and leather jackets, nothing surprising for that either. “Men are a little more foufous”, mimics in a rotation of the hand at the head of the head Pat ‘, which has been walking on the roads for fifty years. “No doubt that women are a little more” clean “,” he adds, pointing speed, drugs and alcohol.

A bingo quoted almost in order by the old biker while 31 % of fatal accidents are linked to an excessive speed, heated by alcohol (30 %) and the other drugs (21 % of road mortality). But at 80, Roger at another idea in mind: “Perhaps it is the fault of women too”, dares the Pépé leaning on his cane and dressed in an OM survey. “I do not believe that men do not drive badly, women are less disciplined and provoke accidents where men die,” he said, convinced.

“More nervous” and in “search for adrenaline”

An idea which despite everything is relatively widespread, even among the women themselves: “I thought it was the women precisely”, is surprised in her twenty. Then to recover: “the tails of fish, the headlight calls when arriving from behind at full speed, I see it when I go out:” they are always men behind the wheel “. They also lead more under balloon or under smoking. I believe that women are more aware of the danger ”

His colleague Nassima at the apprentice training center also notes it: “Men are more nervous. My ex-husband, and my father too, were still accelerating for nothing. And we, as a passenger, we get used to it. Me, it has changed since I had my children. We realize it, ”says Nassima. And the two work colleagues also cite the role of frequentations and colleagues “who heat up to do anything and drive like calus (a myopic in Provençal but who designates a crazy individual in today) on small Roads “

And Pierre, just forty years to conclude: “I find the figure (84 %) very high but this testifies to the drift linked to several plagues which concern men: the apology for speed, the search for adrenaline, The need for thrills, drugs and alcohol … There is a big education to do. ”