Women cyclists ‘at greater risk from lorry deaths’

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The study was blunt in its conclusions: "Women may be over-represented in (collisions with goods vehicles) because they are less likely than men to disobey red lights."
By jumping red lights, it said, men are less likely to be caught in a lorry driver’s blind spot, whereas less assertive cyclists who wait at the lights just in front of a lorry are at greater risk as they cannot be seen by the driver. But not everyone agrees. Mark Ames, who writes the ibikelondon blog, thinks the focus should be on lorries themselves rather than the cyclists’ gender.
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https://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2010/may/21/women-cyclists-most-accidentsoldId.20100522101827376