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In Holland they have the opposite approach to liability to most countries including ours and Norway.

The Dutch philosophy is "Cyclists are not dangerous; cars and car drivers are; so cars should take the responsibility for avoiding collisions with cyclists. This implies that car drivers are almost always liable when a collision with a bicycle occurs and should adapt their speed when bicycles share the roads with motorists"

go and tell everyone in positions of authority that^
we can take strength from it.

www.fietsberaad.org

    I just don't think this helps at all. The number of times I've seen fluorescent clad organ donors, shaking a fist at a car after having made a turn into the car's path without even the most cursory of signals is just frightening.... Take some responsibility for yourself and everything falls into place.

I just don't think this helps at all. The number of times I've seen fluorescent clad organ donors, shaking a fist at a car after having made a turn into the car's path without even the most cursory of signals is just frightening.... Take some responsibility for yourself and everything falls into place.

Duh... Ignore me. Can't edit this post yet, but I misread yours. You were referring to accidents, not deaths

on britains roads it is about 3000 dead per year.

Somewhat overstated? According to ROSPA cyclists killed in 2007 numbered 136.
http://www.rospa.com/roadsafety/advice/cycling/cycling_accidents.htm

These are reported deaths and I suspect around 2850 unreported deaths to be unlikely... Then again they also say that a whopping 150,000 cycling accidents happen off-road. That'll be the mountain bikers I guess...

I was already aware the driver had not seen me so had started to slow down already,

Nail, head, hammer!

You'll often hear sportsmen/women from all kinds of disciplines say that their best performances come from times when they really don't feel like they're trying. In fact they're just fully absorbed by what they are doing. Being aware, attentive to your environment, should be relaxing - if you feel stressed, you're not concentrating hard enough!

I wouldn't want to bureaucratise cycling. There aren't many obligations as a cyclist, and it really should stay that way, but you have an obligation to look after yourself. And this has the handy side effect of making cycling even more pleasurable.

Really impressed by the opinions here (and I only found this forum whilst searching for some new tyres...)

its often hard for councils to get and keep staff

Not surprised... I emailed Greenwich Council about my interest in becoming a trainer. I've been riding for nearly four decades and never felt unsafe on the roads, but was shocked by some of the riding I'd been seeing recently. No signals, no predictability, no looking to the horizon... The catalogue was a bit scary...

Anyway, Greenwich never returned or even acknowledged any of my messages. Unfortunately health problems have curtailed my riding a bit recently, and I certainly wouldn't be up for the job now - maybe in a year or two...

well that's because cunts co-opt the aesthetic, reducing the impact

In the same way as the Ghost Bike project has co-opted the "White Bicycle" (a once radical idea) and turned it into gothic sentimentalism...?