The car wasn't impatient. Cars are inanimate objects.
The driver committed a TS10 offence and put cyclists in danger, your attempted defence of the kind of behaviour that killed Deep Lee confirms you don't care if cyclists get killed, the same as the person who agrees with you who thinks jokes about running cyclists over are funny but whines and snivels if she sees a wing mirror get damaged. Wing mirrors are more important than cyclists to that creature.
Private motoring receives enormous subsidies:
The perennial complaint from drivers that they are excessively taxed has been challenged by a study which concludes that road accidents, pollution and noise connected to cars costs every EU citizen more than £600 a year.
The report by transport academics at the Dresden Technical University in Germany calculated that even with drivers' insurance contributions discounted these factors amounted to an annual total of €373bn (£303bn) across the 27 EU member states, or around 3% of the bloc's entire yearly GDP. This breaks down as €750 per man, woman and child.
The report recommends that such so-called externalities be factored into the cost of driving, noting that even the €373bn tally does not include costs from congestion or ill health caused by lack of exercise.
The idea that drivers are "the cash cows of our society" is wrong, the authors write: "On the contrary, it must be stated that car traffic in the EU is highly subsidised by other people and other regions and will be by future generations: residents along an arterial road, taxpayers, elderly people who do not own cars, neighbouring countries, and children, grandchildren and all future generations subsidise today's traffic."
The study, The True Costs of Automobility, accepts that such calculations necessarily have an element of approximation but give an important overall picture. In a national breakdown it says UK drivers acconted for £48bn of costs, second only to Germany, or about £815 per person per year.
http://www.theguardian.com/world/2012/dec/25/car-pollution-noise-accidents-eu?INTCMP=SRCH
Motorists are freeloaders.
VED revenue in 2004/2005, for example, was £4.7bn (Table 7.15 in DfT 2006, 129) whilst total expenditure on road building and maintenance in England alone in the same period was £6bn (Table 7.13 in DfT 2006, 128). Clearly road maintenance is therefore being subsidised by other forms of taxation in addition to VED, and any driver who argues for a direct link between road use and expenditure is in effect calling for a higher level of road tax.
And that's before you even start counting the cost of accidents on the roads (£18bn per year (DfT 2004, 5)
Congestion: £30bn by 2010 (Goodwin 2004, 2)
n 1998 it was calculated that between 12,000 and 24,000 deaths may be may "brought forward" each year in the UK as a result of air pollution, and that between 14,000 and 24,000 hospital admissions annually result from poor air quality (COMEAP 1998), to which road transport is by far the largest single contributor (FoE 1999, 1),
In this light, and without even factoring in the less easily established costs of damage to wildlife, noise pollution, contribution to climate change, and end-of-life disposal of motor vehicles, it is already clear that motorists do not currently pay anything like the full cost of motoring.
Everytime you see a motor vehicle you are seeing a parasite.
http://www.jake-v.co.uk/content/54.php
shows how it should be done. About time cyclists stopped being passive victims of bullies. We’re in charge innit
