Originally Posted by
RobertHurst
Right. We all see adult cyclists of all kinds breaking laws all over the country, as a general rule, and yet most of the car-bike collisions involving adults are caused by motorist inattention, and have nothing to do with bicyclists running red lights or stop signs. So what exactly is the correlation between bicyclists' law-breaking and bike safety? It isn't clear to me.
It isn't really clear to me either.
Personally, I think it's because traffic laws are designed for large four wheeled vehicles weighing thousands of pounds and not two wheeled velocipedes. But what do I know?