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@Hendrik
I'm with Tiswas. Your post sounded very confused, contradictory and was definitely aimed at cyclists.
That is not a situation peds or cars/trucks/etc ever encounter. You also start by arguing that people think they know the law and therefore ride unsafely fast or without regard to their surroundings. Likewise, you finish by saying that people should ride slower in order to be safer. However, when you 'have that position thrust upon you' then that has nothing at all to do with how slowly or defensively you were riding. You got to a junction, a big lorry pulled up alongside and proceeded to run you over before you knew what was going on. What responsibility could that cyclist have taken for the fact that some lorry was about to run them over?
If you have some safety tips gleaned from analysing so many accidents then please do share them. But saying you should be responsible for the vehicle that is about to kill you by riding slower does not make sense.