"Amsterdam cyclist all act like anti-social a-holes, but over here that is not considered an excuse to just fucking run them over with your car." Why? Anythin

"Amsterdam cyclist all act like anti-social a-holes, but over here that is not considered an excuse to just fucking run them over with your car." Why? Anything other than "just because"? I'll give you a personal example where I was not directly involved but I was sort of present. So I'm at my place of employment, there's streetlights with a dangerous blind corner less than a block away from the front door, trucks parked on the street and stuff. Teen on his bike tries to run a red light at this blind corner, ends up dead underneath a bus in an instant. I ran the math based on some trig and the speeds involved and at this blind corner both the biker and bus driver thought the intersection was clear until, at most, the last 1/20th of a second of the kids life. The passenger side wheels went right over the kids head, likely he never knew what hit him. Wasn't much left of that kid. Most drivers I work with were infuriated because everyone's got experience with bikers not following the law and its bound to happen sooner or later. And frankly its going to happen again, and maybe I'll be the one hitting a red-light-running biker. And I don't really feel bad about it and I refuse to accept responsibility for the kids actions. There's nothing the bus driver could have done about it and nothing I can do about it in the inevitable situation I hit a biker. So there seems little point in not allowing it as an excuse. Note that I've got nothing against suicide prevention, I'd be the first guy to suggest maybe education, or rebuild that intersection, or ... something? But the kid willfully and intentionally played russian roulette and lost. I don't wanna have to wash his innards off my car, but I'm probably going to have to do something like this, sooner or later. Who pays for the damage to my car, thats whats important to me. The bikers might not care about their own lives so I feel no obligation to do the caring for them, but I do care about my car.