Originally Posted by
Marcus_Ti
There is nothing as cyclists we can do about cellphone zombies and mid-afternoon drunks coming back from tailgating. Cyclists will still be hit and killed even after doing everything right WRT traffic law and street smarts.
Simply nonsense.
If you want to be very pedantic, a truck could kill you while you are sitting down in a restaurant int eh middle of the afternoon (
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/...rant/11141793/ ), so there is no way to be safe.
Lets look at the data to get some perspective. If you look at number of serious injuries and deaths, cycling is
only slightly more dangerous than driving. But if you look more closely, you will see that many of the serious accidents involve cyclists being reckless or breaking the law. IF you ride carefully and respecting the law you can be very safe by any reasonable standard of safety.
(I guess it depends on where you are talking about, I would not feel safe riding with cars in some parts of the world. But I would feel safe in most places in the US or Canada)