Originally Posted by genec

I understand what you are saying, but the auto bike crashes are based on a biking population that strictly "keeps to the right" on shoulders, hugging curbs and in bike lanes. Hence the low occurance of rear collisions; cyclists are "out of the way." However, if as some VC advocates seem to endorse, we should be riding out of the BL, especially at intersections, then that puts us more in line for the typical auto type crashes, which are rear enders.