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@Dammit
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The wholly predictable consequence of such a law is that some cyclists will take even more risks with the traffic in the knowledge that the law is on their side regardless.
He seems to be ignoring that having a collision with a vehicle/the road/etc hurts.
I could run into another vehicle in my car at a fairly decent pace- airbags would deploy, crumple zones would crumple and so on, but I'd be likely to be ok, maybe some slight tinnitus from the airbags.
I'd need to get a new car, but I'd have all my limbs and so forth.
I have personal experience of being in a collision with a motor vehicle earlier this year and I found that I had a crumple zone- the bones of my jaw and also my teeth.
My teeth should be replaced just in time for Christmas, which is nice.
Pricey though- 2.5 times the cost of my car in fact.