I am going to take Justin Fenton article from The Baltimore Sun and rewrite it so it is talking about traffic "accident" crime and put the gun related number in brackets.
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After a weekend in which 43 [18] people in the city were run over or ran into and all sent to the hospital, including a police detective who was injured and a 8-year-old boy who died, Baltimore Police Commissioner Frederick H. Beal III used the normal occurrence of traffic carnage to argue Monday for even less traffic enforcement in the city.
Beal, who has accompanied Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake to Annapolis to push for tougher penalties for gun offenders but traffic law offenders are still not a big problem in the city. The recent cycling accident where a young man still lies in a coma and the police have said no charges against the driver will be likely underscores the point, traffic accidents and enforcement are not that big of concern for the police department.
"After drivers crash one car, they get another car again. To say it minimally, it’s [exasperating] that more people don’t understand the enormous ramifications of these guys running around the city with these 150 horsepower machines with little thought of others or the law," Beal said at a Monday morning news conference. "The … people living in this city expect that when people do bad things, they’re going to be held accountable unless of course they do bad things with an automobile, that is after all understandable."
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The original coverage on gun laws: https://articles.baltimoresun.com/2011-03-21/news/bs-md-ci-weekend-violence-bealefeld-20110321_1_tighter-gun-laws-city-police-officer-police-detectiveoldId.20110326134939105
there is an assumption that the bike rider is/was doing something wrong (maybe because there isn’t a rider’s test that leads to a license you have to pass which presumes you then know the laws) and therefore drivers get off the hook a lot when it comes to vehicle/bicycle collisions. The real truth is that every driver (vehicles, bicycle riders and pedestrians included) has a responsibility to act responsible and not negligent, and if they do should be held responsible… it’s the law, so police who do not enforce the laws should be removed because that is their job. Any city who has officers or department heads that are not enforcing the laws when they see an infraction should be suspended or removed and failure to enforce the laws and thus ‘calm traffic attitudes’ will certainly result in fatalities.