Cycling and Risk Taking survey

Women are on average much safer riders than men. It's only in these deaths by HGV that there is a statistical divergence. We don't really know why yet, but such research will hopefully help.

a poorly thought up theory, but netherless, I think women usually follow the highway code more often than men (as they're usually safer than men on average as you said), and often cycle on the cycle lane/path when there's one, because it give out the illusion of safety, even if some of them were far from safe.

Because the cycle path is between the pavement and road, it encourage people to undertake anything, even HGV, and met their untimely death when an HGV turned onto the cycle lane.

like I says, a poorly thought up theory.