TheAA no longer prioritising lone women for recovery

[Imayhaveerred]

A woman tweeted this “ hi @TheAA_UK I am a lone woman whose car has broken down at night in the dark. Your call handler has told me you treat lone women and lone men as exactly the same priority in such circumstances because “that’s equality”

TheAA reply: “Hi Helen, you've been advised correctly. We don't prioritise based on gender, we do consider the location so as an example we would prioritise someone on a motorway over someone in a supermarket carpark”

twitter.com/theaa_uk/status/1483867262373220356?s=21

Surely lone women are always at higher risk than lone men? And that’s before the egregious use of gender when they mean sex…

@maddy68

Why should I have priority over someone else when I break down? You're safe in your car

In addition to the risk of staying in a car on a motorway - I was targeted by a pervert while "safe" in my car. Luckily I was on a fairly busy road, I still wonder what would have happened if I'd been in a lonelier situations and he'd have felt free to smash the window.

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