Originally Posted by merlinextraligh

I for one, didn't mean to imply that you're an idiot. And it's perfectly understandable that your personal experience can affect you.

Where I and I think others are coming from is trying to keep things in perspective.

Over the years there has been a lot of fear mongering on BF. Because a great percentage of Bike fatalities anywhere in the US, and to a lesser degree the World, get discussed here, there's a tendency to believe cyclists are dropping like flies and to distort the risks involved.