from Streetsblog.net by Angie Schmitt
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But here’s the problem.
Despite protestations from some quarters, bad bicyclist behavior does not cause bicycling deaths. Bad driving does.
Even a cursory examination of cyclists killed in Orange County recently suggests that the problem isn’t cyclists running stop signs, riding two abreast or even flipping off drivers, as obnoxious as that may be.
They died at the hands of drunk, high or careless drivers. Simply put, no crackdown on rider behavior would have done a damn thing to save the lives of Michael Nine, Donald Murphy or Alan Earl Miller.
https://streetsblog.net/2011/02/22/orange-county-claims-yet-another-biking-victim/oldId.2011030712381743