Children (up to age of 21), and adults under 40 accounted for 80 percent of the road traffic accident-related claims, women were involved in just wo of the claims, the Irish Life figures show. Overall, one in 10 of all child death claims were the result of a road traffic accident. The average age for road traffic accident death claims for men was 41.
The largest payment for a death reesulting from a road traffic accident was €291,400 to a woman in her 20s while €109,600 was paid out to a man in his 30s whose life cover had commenced just seven months prior to the accident.
