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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Bike, but please do not wear all black with no reflective gear or good/ prominent lighting on bike.
Same goes for people who walk in all black with no reflective gear and they just pop out  of nowhere. 
And it doesn’t  matter where the location is.[/quote]

People don't "pop out of nowhere", except in the perceptions of people who are driving too fast for the conditions. The faster you drive, the more your peripheral vision narrows. And you also need to drive more slowly at night.

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The same also applies to cyclists, who have longer breaking distance than cars going the same speed which means that they should be even more careful.[/quote]

Absolutely. Everybody (bicyclists and drivers) should limit their speeds to 12 mph or less at night.[/quote]
Except that cars have a shorter braking distance than bicycles. If bicycles cannot stop in time to avoid a collision then they were going too fast. Not the tree, parked car, pedestrian, or other road users.[/quote]

Waiting for the data about trees, parked cars, and pedestrians injured or killed by people bicycling too fast for conditions in the dark.[/quote]
I am not sure what data you need for you to understand basic principles like if you crash into an inanimate object because you cannot stop you are going too fast or if you hit someone or something else because you cannot stop in time, you are also going too fast. But you’re probably the same person who refuses to wear a reflective vest to increase safety. So you seem a bit thick.[/quote]

F = ma except for when it applies to bicyclists vs. drivers, because spandex, or something.[/quote]
The rule is that whatever a cyclist runs into it is that other things fault. Check how often they fault “bad infrastructure” for their unsafe behavior.[/quote]

If it were a rule, drivers would find a way to break it.[/quote]

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