Women are Better, Safer Drivers, New Study Proves and More News

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Nov 8 · 4 min read

Here are some of the top stories making news headlines today: Women are better drivers, new study proves; Buckingham Palace pressured ABC to drop Epstein story, journalist caught same on hot mic; Woman runs through swarm of flies and gets rare parasitic worms in her eyes.

Women are safer and better drivers, new study proves

For decades, “women drivers” has been a derogatory, sexist stereotype used by men to imply that females lacked the skills behind the wheel that men possess. But a new study has shown that reality is the opposite.

To be fair to men, more women do fail their driving tests the first time than men do. However, once becoming licensed and out on the road, new research shows that women become better and safer drivers than men do.

This study was done in England and used data from 2018 traffic laws and convictions of over half a million drivers to determine some of its results, as well as 1.4 million insurance claims. Men were twice as likely to be at fault when filing insurance claims compared to women.

Of those people convicted of breaking the law behind the wheel, 79 percent were men. Nearly a quarter of these offenses were for speeding. Women only accounted for 3 percent of the speeders — 73 percent were men. Drunk driving offenses were 80 percent male compared to only 20 percent female.

However, it’s worth keeping in mind that male police officers are more likely to let women go with a warning and not test them for intoxication as compared to men.

Buckingham Palace pressured ABC to drop Epstein story, journalist caught same on hot mic

Journalist Amy Robach was captured on a hot mic saying that she filmed an interview with Jeffrey Epstein’s sex slave Virginia Roberts in 2015 that ABC did not air under pressure from Buckingham Palace, because the Royals threatened to sue the network over allegations made about Prince Andrew.

“It was unbelievable what we had,” the hot mic records Robach saying. “[Bill] Clinton. We had everything. I tried for three years to get it on to no avail.”

“I was upset that an interview I had conducted with Virginia Roberts didn’t air because we could not obtain sufficient corroborating evidence,” Robach continues.

The shocking and revealing video was captured by Project Veritas, who has captured a number of revealing incidents through their use of undercover agents. Most notably was capturing Google executives discussing how they might purposely manipulate their search engine algorithms to prevent Trump from being reelected.

It’s worth noting that, two months before the hot mic video, the president of ABC News, James Goldston, dined with both Prince Charles and President Trump in London during a state visit.

Caught in a potential cover-up, ABC released the following statement about the Epstein story: “At the time, not all of our reporting met our standards to air, but we have never stopped investigating the story. Ever since we’ve had a team on this investigation and substantial resources dedicated to it. That work has led to a two-hour documentary and six-part podcast that will air in the new year.”

After Project Veritas released its undercover video, Robach tweeted the following: “It’s infuriating that we could have put an end to Epstein’s abuse years ago- but I wasn’t believed. I am sick of BS media “scrambling around” for more evidence. It’s there in black and white. If this was a murder case you would have all the evidence needed.”

Woman runs through a swarm of flies, wines up with parasitic worms in her eyes

The next time you see a swarm of flies, you might think twice after considering one woman’s nightmarish experience… A 68-year-old Nebraska woman who was vacationing in California began having an irritation in her right eye. She went to the sink to flush it out with tap water, and in doing so, dislodged a moving roundworm that was about a half inch in length. Upon discovering the frightening living being in her eye, she looked closer and found a second worm wiggling around. She was able to flush it out.

The next day, she went to see an ophthalmologist who found a third worm in her eye and removed it. However, the ophthalmologist didn’t exactly give her the advice she wanted to hear. The ophthalmologist advised the woman to keep flushing her eyes with water and manually pull out any worms she found there. She was also given some ointment to prevent bacterial infection and sent on her way.

When she returned to her home state of Nevada, she continued to have irritation in her eyes, feeling a “foreign body sensation” and both of them. She went on to seek additional medical assistance, and this time the doctors put her on a new course of treatment which eventually rendered her worm-free.

However, the discussion with the doctors circled back around to an important thought: How did she contract the worms in the first place?

After some deep pondering, the woman recalled that, while in California, she was on a trail and ran into a swarm of small flies. She told the doctors that she was swatting them away, but there were so many, she ended up spitting some of them out of her mouth.

The doctors examined one of the worms and identified it as an adult female T. gulosa. The woman made the medical journals from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) parasitic division that determined this was only the second time this particular parasite has been found in humans. These worms are normally only transmitted between flies and cattle.

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