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Bikes are threats to pedestrians. I've never hit a pedestrian on a bike but I've come close. I've also been hit by a car while on a bike (at a low speed, enough to trash the bike but I was able to hop off in time) so I have sympathy here.


Bikes injure pedestrians fairly often. My understanding is they rarely kill (though I'm happy to defer on either to someone bringing actual statistics to the table).


They don't, you need higher speeds for that (freak accidents don't count). Source: the lack of bicycle-caused deaths in the Netherlands.


Well, apparently they do occasionally (though you'd probably be correct in labeling it a "freak accident"):

http://www.sfexaminer.com/sanfrancisco/no-jail-for-cyclist-c...




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