On Tue, 30 Jul 2013 13:11:05 +0100, David Cantrell
wrote:
... safety failures hardly ever have a
single cause. Yes, drivers also cause those risks, but IME of actual
and near accidents, yer average cyclist who is involved in an accident
is more at fault, and even if they aren't at fault, they're still the
ones who, when **** goes wrong, suffer the most. Therefore it behooves
them to do the most to mitigate the risk.

No. Those who cause the greatest risk to others have the greatest
responsibility to reduce that risk.

Cyclists can make themselves safer, mainly by being more aware of what
drivers are doing around them. The danger still comes overwhelmingly from
the motor vehicles, with a small contribution from poor road surfaces.

In a majority of collisions between cyclists and motor vehicles, police
record the driver as mainly at fault. In collisions between pedestrians
and motor vehicles, the pedestrians are more likely than the drivers to be
blamed. So cyclists are more careful of their own safety than pedestrians
are.

Colin McKenzie

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