Originally Posted by
nwmtnbkr
Sure many times since both began sharing the road. Just do a Google search. Here's a story about one such accident from a 1914 NY Times article--5 people in a chauffeur driven tour car where killed when the chauffeur swerved to avoid hitting a cyclist turning in front of the car and hit a pole.
http://query.nytimes.com/mem/archive...6E9C946596D6CF
Back to 1914 eh? Btw, that's ONE killed and others injured while joyriding in a car. The boy may have been at fault as the article indicates, but maybe not. It was the kid who notified the police.
Originally Posted by
nwmtnbkr
There is no mention of the kid being in the wrong. It says the driver was on one of his "usual joyrides" when he swerved to avoid killing a child on a bicycle. And you blame the kid for endangering the guy in the Ferrarri, rather than the other way around.
I'm not saying bicyclists don't cause accidents. Bicyclists cause roughly half of the wrecks in which they're involved, in fact.
But the idea that bicyclists' mistakes pose significant danger to drivers, rather than just themselves, pedestrians and other bicyclists, is little more than a very interesting fantasy. It's interesting that this fantasy is so popular, even among bicyclists, without much if any evidence to support it.