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Originally Posted by gasman
You are right in that what causes most of these accidents is the person in the vehicle are unaware of bicyclists, but they are also unaware, or uncaring as to how their actions impact others.
Last year I was cycling on a residential road that was a designated bike route. A minivan approached me from the rear, pulled wide to pass me on the left, and immediately hooked right in front of me to turn right, the result was that I ran into her bumper and was extremely lucky I wasn't seriously injured or killed. The drivers response, a middle finger through the back window. This woman was "aware" that I was there, as evidenced by her wide left turn, but she simply wasn't smart enough, or aware enough to realize that there wasnt enough room to pass me before her turn.
To suggest that rules are skewed towards cyclists... they follow the same rules of the road as a car so I don't really get that. if 93% of the time the car was at fault, that means that 93% of the time the car broke the rules, not the cyclist, I don't see how you read that stat any other way. Just because there are more cars on the road than bikes shouldn't matter, if you aren't able to drive a car without hitting someone, then you aren't fit to drive.
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I don't disagree, I was just saying maybe an unattentive driver has 5% chance of noticing a cyclist, while an unattentive cyclist has 95% chance of noticing a car. because a car is really that much bigger and harder to miss.
unattentive commuters in general are the problem. But it might explain the heavy leaning towards motor vehicles being the ones at fault. When people are breaking the rules they are not trying to get in accident, they get in accidents because they are not aware of what is happening around them.