It would be amusing if it weren't so sad. Here, people mourn over allegedly law-abiding cyclists assaulted by cars and jeer allegedly law-defying cyclists assaulted by cars. We conveniently forget that in the eyes of most drivers, there is nothing to distinguish the law-abiding cyclist from the law-defying one. Both are worth little more than dogs, and both are fit to run over, providing one intimates strongly enough s/he "didn't see the cyclist", or that said cyclist "came out of nowhere."

We're town mice making fun of country mice. We don't seem to get that in the eyes of humans (drivers), we're still bloody mice. And this will continue to be our downfall.