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@Mule
True, but the increase of accidents happens with an increase of cyclist so a large portion of these accidents will be new cyclists, my point is not that drivers don’t have any blame but that cyclist should be taught to look out for themselves as they will be at risk not the drivers.
If you teach people to be safer on both sides then the most benefit will be seen. I have had idiot drivers left hook me, swing left (into me) to turn right, open doors on me, not predict my speed and pull out on me all sorts: I’m not justifying these actions I’m just say each one has taught me to be wary of these events and threw being aware of them I have learnt to predict (with a lot less accuracy than I would like) which drivers will do it and which wont and how to avoid it. This is a grounding that most new cyclist don’t have and it just takes one event of this nature to kill. So I am in no way defending every driver but it doesn’t help to only look at improving their awareness