With proper education and driver training you can pretty much limit that to a few scratch marks here and there. There are plenty of cycle-gutters painted on the

With proper education and driver training you can pretty much limit that to a few scratch marks here and there. There are plenty of cycle-gutters painted on the road here in places where the preferred path for cyclists is not that path with parked cars next to them as you describe, yet accidents rarely happen and are almost never serious. Though they can be completely avoided with proper separation .