Originally Posted by
urbanknight
That's the funny thing about drivers. If the conditions are such that they wouldn't be able to see a cyclist in time, then the conditions are such that they wouldn't be able to see debris on the road, a small tractor, a large animal, etc. They're simply insisting on driving faster than is safe and blaming the other's existence for not being able to.
Tend to agree... but in the cases you mentioned, there is likely to be damage to the driver and or vehicle too... tractors and cows tend to a lot bigger than cyclists... and sadly, in most car/bike collisions, it is the cyclist that incurs most of the damage, not the car.
And yeah, way too many drivers adhere to the "I must drive the speed limit" mode of driving, vice the "I should drive for the conditions" mode. We see this too often in the annual "multi-vehicle collision in the snowstorm" report.