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Old 05-25-13, 08:07 PM
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The data vary fairly widely, but you're right that when the cyclist is an adult, the percentage of cyclist fault drops. By the same token, with 50/50 as a ratio in all accidents, and with adult cyclists have a much lower percentage of responsibility, that means that with children the percentage of cyclist fault is comparably higher.

My point wasn't to use statistics to imply that the child was at fault, since one can't make inferences from the general to the specific, but to simply remind folks to hold back their anger until the facts were in.
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