Read any post on TreeHugger about cycling and there will be comments about how cyclists blow through stop signs and ignore the law, like “Very rarely do I see a cyclist in the wild without seeing them do something brazenly idiotic and get away with it for no other reason than someone in a car was paying enough attention to avoid killing them.”
Writing in Outside Magazine, Peter Flax points to a study prepared for the Florida Department of Transportation which concludes that in fact, cyclists are actually law-abiding folk 87 percent of the time, and drivers? Only 85 percent of the time. Flax writes:
