Women's Safety in Traffic

[QUOTE=jenny j;1507755]And what about the people who ride without ever looking behind themselves?? I followed a woman (and this one does seem to be a women's thing) for about a mile this morning; she was signalling and weaving her way past the cars but never once looked behind her. I would have brought it to her attention. But I was behind her. So didn't exist.

Eye contact, ftw
Disagree totally - I see both sexes do exactly this...[/QUOTE]

+1 When I did my training that was the trainer's observation - I rode like hell and never looked back. I slowed right down for a month and started to look back a lot, but since then have been creeping back up to speed, drafting and dodging again. The thing is when you ride at speed in dense traffic you need to look forward all the time, because if you look behind even for a glimpse you can easily end up tasting the vehicle in front.

This is all going a bit off topic though, and to be honest I'm not sure it's possible to have a discussion on women's safety in traffic beyond sharing anecdotes. Aside from the vulgar biological differences, there is vastly more in common between the sexes than not, and while there may be a sex bias towards a particular behaviour, the bias is always going to be much much smaller than the range of that behaviour.