{"id":5405,"date":"2026-03-02T13:32:11","date_gmt":"2026-03-02T19:32:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.carabinshaw.com\/news\/?p=5405"},"modified":"2026-03-02T13:32:11","modified_gmt":"2026-03-02T19:32:11","slug":"do-women-face-higher-injury-risk-in-car-accidents-what-the-nhtsa-found","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.carabinshaw.com\/news\/do-women-face-higher-injury-risk-in-car-accidents-what-the-nhtsa-found\/","title":{"rendered":"Do Women Face Higher Injury Risk in Car Accidents? What the NHTSA Found"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_5406\" style=\"width: 483px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-5406\" class=\" wp-image-5406\" src=\"https:\/\/www.carabinshaw.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/iStock-2152139111-300x158.jpg\" alt=\"iStock-2152139111-300x158\" width=\"473\" height=\"249\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.carabinshaw.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/iStock-2152139111-300x158.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.carabinshaw.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/iStock-2152139111-768x405.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.carabinshaw.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/iStock-2152139111-228x120.jpg 228w, https:\/\/www.carabinshaw.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/iStock-2152139111.jpg 814w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 473px) 100vw, 473px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-5406\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Women are at greater risk for severe injuries than men after a car accident.<\/p><\/div>\n<h1 data-start=\"378\" data-end=\"454\">NHTSA Study: Women Face Greater Risk of Serious Injury in Car Accidents<\/h1>\n<p data-start=\"456\" data-end=\"700\">A recent study released by the <strong data-start=\"487\" data-end=\"528\"><span class=\"hover:entity-accent entity-underline inline cursor-pointer align-baseline\"><span class=\"whitespace-normal\">National Highway Traffic Safety Administration<\/span><\/span><\/strong> (NHTSA) confirms what researchers have examined for years: women may face a significantly higher risk of certain serious injuries in motor vehicle crashes compared to men.<\/p>\n<div class=\"read_more_link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.carabinshaw.com\/news\/do-women-face-higher-injury-risk-in-car-accidents-what-the-nhtsa-found\/\"  title=\"Continue Reading Do Women Face Higher Injury Risk in Car Accidents? 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NHTSA Study: Women Face Greater Risk of Serious Injury in Car Accidents A recent study released by the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) confirms what researchers have examined for years: women may face a significantly higher risk of certain serious [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[50,7],"tags":[7514,7513,7518,79,2306,7520,55,122,188,646,7517,7511,7509,98,7523,7525,7524,7507,19,7522,7510,5225,7519,7521,7512,2718,7516,7508,7515],"class_list":["post-5405","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-car-accidents","category-personal-injury","tag-128-percent-higher-foot-ankle-injury-crash","tag-42-percent-greater-injury-risk-women","tag-airbag-deployment-injury-differences","tag-auto-accident","tag-call-shaw","tag-car-accident-injury-severity-texas","tag-car-accidents","tag-car-crash","tag-carabin-shaw","tag-clients-first","tag-crash-biomechanics-women-vs-men","tag-female-crash-test-dummy-nhtsa","tag-frontal-crash-injury-risk-women","tag-injury-help","tag-injury-risk","tag-injury-risk-data","tag-injury-risk-women","tag-nhtsa-crash-study-women-injury-risk","tag-personal-injury","tag-product-liability-vehicle-safety-system","tag-rollover-crash-injury-women","tag-san-antonio-personal-injury-attorney","tag-seatbelt-restraint-geometry-women","tag-serious-injury-rollover-crash-claim","tag-sex-based-differences-car-crash-injuries","tag-texas-car-accident-lawyer","tag-vehicle-safety-design-gender-differences","tag-women-higher-injury-rate-car-crashes","tag-young-women-higher-fatality-risk-crashes"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Do Women Face Higher Injury Risk in Car Accidents? 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