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It doesn't make a lot of sense to me. I understand that if a lorry taps the rear end of a car, causing minor damage, no one bats an eyelid and calls it accidental: the lorry driver can be deemed to be driving safely even if he's close enough to the car to tap it. But a lorry driver who's close enough to a bike to 'tap' it, what's going on there? Why is he anywhere near the bike, when the consequences are so very very different?