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I think sometimes people are just to eager to get somewhere ahead of someone else, be it a pedestrian crossing on a green light (what's it going to save on your journey 2 minutes?), a car trying to overtake a cyclist where there is clearly no space or obvious advantage and more obviously cyclist crossing red lights.
I have embarked on a personal mission to try and cooperate and be as visual as possible with drivers, to make them aware of what i'm doing and if i notice that they have pulled back to give me space i will give them a thumbs up. Because i know i really appreciate a bit of road courtesy.
As a friend of mine once wisely said "we are all just trying to get somewhere"
It shouldn't be a battle and there are a lot of drivers out there that do not like cyclist...this should change and we as cyclists should try to force this issue as much as possible.
My thoughts go out to the people invloved in the accident.