Originally Posted by
genec
But this occurs less often than lightening striking and killing people. So let's not make a big thing out of it. Just don't do it.
That's just plain silly. Lightening cannot make a choice as to where it strikes or does not. Cyclists on the other hand CAN make choices about how they ride and if they don't ride with respect for pedestrians who have the right of way. We claim to be vehicles just like cars and trucks and so just like cars and trucks we have a legal obligation to yield to pedestrians.
If it were the other way around and not many cyclists were killed by motor vehicles would you still claim not to make a big thing out of it? Numbers don't matter because any number of pedestrians being killed by the actions and choices of cyclists is too many just as cyclists killed by motor vehicles.
By why lower the bar to just fatalities? Is it ok for pedestrians to be injured or crippled by cyclists because of bike riders disregard for their safety?
Motorists having respect and obeying the rules regarding cyclists is just the same as cyclists having respect and obeying the rules for pedestrians. To believe otherwise is hypocritical.