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Motorcycle & Scooter

Gidney N Cloyd

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2. I think women on the whole are safer drivers but they dominate in 2 problem areas:

Reply to Glassunion (Original post)

Sat Aug 17, 2013, 02:37 PM

Aug 2013

1) Tailgating (the inattentive kind, not the 'get out or my way' kind)
2) "Multi-tasking" (phone/texting/makeup application/digging around the car/eating & drinking/etc. when they should be concentrating on driving)

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