Does gender affect fender benders? Well it's hard to generalize here, but there are some truisms about male and female behavior behind the wheel that bear consideration. Young males often tend to equate good driving with good handling skills, and that can often lead to riskier driving behavior. Males are more than twice as likely to die in traffic crashes then females. Males are also much more likely to be the perpetrators and the victims of road rage. So in working with boys, make sure you communicate to them that you will judge them to be a good driver disproportionately based on how well they obey the rules of the road, and how well they treat other drivers. Young women on the other hand tend to equate good driving with understanding the rules of road and operating the car in the way they've been taught. Teen girls statistically get involved in crashes more frequently at intersections, at low speed during the week and without alcohol involvement. So, given their higher incidence of crashes at intersections, when you work with girls, practice left hand turns across traffic repeatedly. Reinforce that many drivers do not and will not obey the rights of way and will endanger them. Make sure they have that 2-3 second delay, Then look both ways, when the stop light changes and the stop signs to give them the extra margin of error for those who may blow through red, yellow and whites. Make sure that your girls give adequate following distance, 3-4 seconds. So for those people who don't observe the rights of way or use turn signals, you've got enough time to brake effectively.