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> I don't doubt I'd be a victim of a hit-and-run if any of those drivers actually did cause a collision.

The only way I can read this is that you believe, of the people that cause a collision with a bicycle (accidentally or otherwise), all (or almost all) of them would just leave you to die on the side of the road.

That is a staggeringly low opinion of humanity.



The low opinion is not of humanity, rather, certain drivers who are particularly dangerous.

I didn't have all drivers who'd be in a collision with a cyclist in mind, just a large fraction of those who deliberately pass cyclists closely. My wording was too strong.

Hit and run crashes account for roughly 12% of all crashes in the US, so they may be more common than you believe: https://aaafoundation.org/hit-and-run-crashes-prevalence-con...


>That is a staggeringly low opinion of humanity.

When people make sweeping assumptions about the nature of other people it says something about them too.




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