Originally Posted by
Daniel4
How naive some of us are thinking there was a difference between an wild animal out to feed and a human being with a valid drivers licence after passing road and written tests.
You still missed the point.
If you swim in the open ocean and a fish eats you, that's a risk YOU took, hopefully knowingly.
If you bike on the open road and a car hits you, that's a risk YOU took, hopefully knowingly.
You have control over what YOU do, not what the rest of the world does, human, fish, whatever. If you expose yourself to danger that is on YOU.
For God's sake people, stop acting so surprised every time a cyclist gets blown up on the highway. They rolled the dice and snake-eyes came up. Every single motorist on Earth is an imperfect human. They are screaming past us at high speeds just inches away. The room for error is tiny. I've been seeing these horror stories here since 2007 when I joined up. Of all the motorists charged and jailed over the years, NOTHING has changed. All the rest of the humans are STILL imperfect, including cyclists. Someone will roll snake-eyes again next week and the week after that. The only thing this has to do with Advocacy and SAFETY is to highlight the unpopular notion that cycling on high speed roadways is NOT 100% safe and never will be no matter how many knucklehead motorists get spanked in the legal system. When the sun comes up tomorrow your odds of getting hozed is EXACTLY the same as yesterday or last year.