Men's Facts - Road Safety

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Men are more likely than women to violate traffic rules.

Poor behaviours or habits of drivers, passengers and pedestrians, such as exceeding speed limit, drink driving, not wearing seat-belt and jay-walking, contribute to a great number of road injuries and fatalities every year. Higher proportion of men sustains injuries or dies from road accidents when compared to women.

Road safety practices by gender, Hong Kong SAR.

		Male	Female
Among those who had driven a vehicle in the last 12 months:
	1. All or most of the time break speed limit by 15km/hour or more	17.4%	11.3%
	2. Drive within 2 hours after drinking alcoholic beverages for at least one time in the past month	6.4%	0.7%
As a passenger:
	3. None of the time use seat-belt where it is mandatory and available	5.0%	3.6%
As a pedestrian:
	4. All or most of the time jay-walk	8.4%	4.0%

Sources:	1, 2, 3: Behavioural Risk Factor Survey, October 2005. Department of Health.
	4: Behavioural Risk Factor Survey, April 2013. Department of Health.

Road traffic casualties by gender, Hong Kong SAR, 2020

	Male	Female
Number of casualties	15 168	6 574
Casualties per 1 000 population (based on mid-year population)	4.84	1.63

Source: Road Traffic Accident Statistics, 2021. Transport Department.