Paul you said.... '...Not only are drivers not in danger from a bicyclist, they have a hell of a lot of control over whether they run over one or not...'
I beg to differ, when 'the pack' ran the stop sign, I was left with the choice of driving up their collective AZZes or leaving the lane....I did not have time to slow down. I DID have control over whether I ran over them or choose to move into the oncoming lane, and as I passed them they were still coming through the stop sign. Had a car been coming in the opposite lane I would absolutely have been in danger.
I spent 24 years as an Air Traffic Controller, lots of 'routine tasks', but mostly looking for things that would, could, might go wrong and fixing it before babies and Samsonite were scattered all over several counties.
It strikes me odd that a Safety Specialist could not possibly forsee the possibility that a bicycle could be a causal factor in creating DANGER to a driver.
By that's just my opinion!
I get what you are saying. I didn't do a good job of explaining what I meant. A motorist is not likely to be killed or injured by a bicyclist. In your case the bicyclists could have been a catalytic force in a crash. Situations like that are a relative rarity I would think. I can't say I have ever read about a bicyclist being a catalytic factor in an accident. I feel certain it has happened but would reckon it to be so rare as to make it almost a non-issue.
