Originally Posted by elocs

I have to agree with Tape2012 who wrote: "I'm an engineer and live by numbers and percentages, but safety is one of those areas where it is inappropriate (and heartless) to analyze strictly by the numbers, especially when deaths and the corresponding larger number of injuries are so easily preventable. Preventing these incidents is totally up to the cyclist and to disregard potential consequences as numerically insignificant goes out the window the first time you injure someone due to your own careless behavior."

A pedestrian being killed by a cyclist is not a statistical oddity if it were to happen to you or a family member of friend. Respect and obeying the rules by cyclists for pedestrians is exactly what we expect from drivers as bike riders for ourselves.