STUDENTS, DOCS=BAD DRIVERS’:
A recent study analyzing the driving records of more than one million Americans revealed students had by far the most reported traffic accidents and speeding citations of any occupation. Medical doctors, attorneys, architects and real estate brokers were right behind students as most likely to be involved in a traffic accident, according to the study, which was conducted by the Quality Planning Corporation. The data was obtained from the driving records of policyholders in every state over a 22-month period in 2001 and 2002. The professions least likely to have accidents were farmers, firemen, pilots and politicians. The top five occupations cited for speeding violations were students, enlisted military, manual laborers, politicians and architects. The least ticketed occupations were homemakers, librarians and law enforcement.