The murder caused distress among local business people, some of whom who felt it was no longer safe to travel unescorted.
A Hutu intellectual in the village, a political centrist, agreed that it was not safe for Tutsi to travel unescorted.
"Plainly I was not left to travel unescorted," she pointed out practically.
For the next 1,400 years or so, religious pilgrimage and family emergency remained the only socially acceptable excuses for a woman to travel unescorted.
Her high speed meant that it was deemed an acceptable risk to travel unescorted rather than in a convoy.
Of course, thought the Consul, the Governor-General does not travel unescorted.
However, the U-boats were able to easily evade the patrols and sink merchant vessels traveling unescorted.
Traveling unescorted on the way home from school can cause problems, as well as their running the risk of getting into trouble.
On 26 March 1944, she was torpedoed and sunk by the Japanese submarine I-8 while traveling unescorted.
Well, if she comes she will not go away again alone; the French roads are too rough for ladies to travel unescorted.