Comment 26384

By Frank (registered) | Posted August 15, 2008 at 08:44:41

Ryan, there's no arguing with that statement. My argument is that when a cyclist gets hit by a car it's quite possible tht it wasn't the vehicle's fault. It's easy for a cyclist to make quick lateral movements and they're much less predictable than someone in a vehicle. So as in other cases, straight statistics are good but in this case they simply blame motorists for cycling fatalities carte blanche and that's not reality!

So let's reiterate...the argument isn't that cars have a greater potential to injure kill someone, the argument is that blaming every cycling death on a vehicle is erroneous as this isn't the case. As I've said before, if both drivers and cyclists obeyed the rules of the road - even the most simple ones, there wouldn't be accidents. Problems arise when people deviate from the rules and they increase exponentially when the potential to do so is relatively unpredictable.

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