if you were driving straight on the street with green light and a bike runs the red and hits the back of the passenger side door, WHOSE fault is that? it is kinda obvious. So people really need to get the facts straight before they start assuming.

This part of the story makes me think some facts are missing. Riding through a red light and smashing into a car in the intersection hard enough to put your head through the window and kill yourself seems like a lot of work. I'm wondering what the whole story was.

Another reason to stay on the subway.

How are delivery guys gonna get to you without bikes or cars?

I got hit by a car last year. It sucked, but I was wearing a helmet. The helmet cracked, but I didn't even have a headache afterward. I bruised my coccyx and had to use a pillow to sit for about 2 months, but nothing too bad. The driver's excuse: "I didn't see you." WTF stupid bitch - you just passed me 5 seconds ago.

"I didn't see (the cyclist)" is the GOOJF card, when it should be an admission of guilt. If a driver can't see a human being riding a bicycle, how in Deity's Name are they supposed to see the markings on the pavement?

I have been spooked by bicyclists dressed in black, with no light or reflective anything, riding on dark streets after nightfall. It scares the hell out of me, and it happens about once a month. I want to scream at them to put something bright on.

I heard that the helmets are only designed to work once. Small price to pay replacing the helmet. I wonder if if would have helped this guy.

You should ALWAYS replace your helmet after an accident. I had a very bad accident about a year and half ago -- I hit black ice in one of the city's parks and went down on concrete, face-first, at about 15 mph. I was very lucky to be wearing a helmet.

I don't understand how any cyclist can not wear a helmet; wear earbuds while riding -- after all, you can't hear the traffic around you; or NOT stop at red lights. Even a careful cyclist like me can be hurt very badly; there's no point in tempting the fates.

BTW hats (helmets?) off to you for riding when there is ice. Not that you should do anything dangerous but it is sometimes hard to justify bike lanes when they are only used 3 moths of the year. I work in downtown Brooklyn and I can go out for a long walk and only see one or two bikes in an hour. I suppose they are busier in the summer and on weekends but not much use in April in the middle of the day. Nice to know at least someone is committed.

Oh, no. I try not to ride when there's ice on the ground. I like to ride in a park near a lake, which is where the sneaky ice came in.

Wear a helmet, and stay off the roads in icy and snowy conditions. I love to ride in winter -- I'm the idiot out there in 25-degree weather. But sometimes, it's too dangerous, and sometimes, there are accidents.

I can't ride over ice -- the technology isn't there -- or deep snow, but otherwise I use a bike to get where I'm going year-'round. There's nothing idiotic about riding in 25-degree weather, you just dress for it, same as you would skiing or skating or working outdoors.

I don't believe trustworthy statistics show much advantage in wearing a helmet. And helmets do give motorists and police the idea that you're doing something stupid and dangerous and can therefore be treated with the contempt we so often observe.

Gothamist always finds a way of putting an anti-driver spin on any story relating to a cyclist, with this headline being a ridiculous, glaring example. It sounds like this was just an unfortunate accident, and the driver did nothing wrong, but that didn't sound dramatic enough. I feel terrible for the cyclist and his family, but the people here that immediately start making accusations that it was the driver's fault never seem to acknowledge the fact that 95% of the bike riders out there do not pay attention to traffic signals, have zero respect for pedestrians, and ride around with a hatred for all things car. I'm not saying the victim was like that, but stop assuming they're always innocent. In my years in NYC I've never seen a pedestrian hit by a car, but I've been personally hit twice by cyclists and seen countless others pedestrians hit by them. When they get in trouble it doesn't surprise me one bit. There is a reckless bike culture here and unless people start riding more carefully accidents like this are going to continue to happen.

While it does appear from this article that the cyclist may have been at fault in this wreck, 2 separate studies have shown that when you just look at the physical evidence drivers are at fault more than 80% of the time. Yet when I look at how violations are handed out I find that the majority of the time (>50%) drivers are not even given tickets even when the driver is clearly at fault. One wreck I'm familiar with the driver of a large truck was weaving off and on the road several times before hitting a couple riding a tandem bicycle on the shoulder ~8ft from the road itself, from behind at a speed higher than the posted limit. The back rider died instantly, the front a few hours later, and their daughter was left an orphan. Now had he hit a parked car there would have been no doubt about guilt, but because the victims were riding a bicycle it took a lawsuit against the DA for any charges to be filed, and at that they were filed on the last day allowed under the statute of limitations. I still don't know what the status of that case is because of a total lack of communication from the DA in that jurisdiction. This was in TX, so this is not just a NYC thing, this is endemic across the country.

It's all about the page clicks. Anybody have any idea if the Gothamist story pickers get paid more for stories that generate lots of page clicks? They posted a story the other day about a hipster getting his iPod stolen on the train. I think they might have made that one up.

More page hits means higher ad rates.

Traffic school should include more respect for the part of said traffic that includes human being without a gigantic mechanical exoskeleton. Just one film of a cyclist's head in a helmet popping under the wheels of a car should do it.

I don't drive much in the city but when I do I get nervous when pedestrians or cyclists are around. I'd like to think most drivers are like that but thee are certainly a percentage that are not. They have no respect for other cars either. The only thing that scares them is getting their car hit. To tell the truth I would be scared to ride a bike in the city in anything other than a park or a class 1 bike lane. I'm pretty happy on the subway. It's fast and most of the lines are clean and efficient, at least during the day.

Try the G on a weekend, you`ll be better off walking

I 've been ridding the subways for 35 years and the G always sucked. I think for a while it was the GG, and it was worse. The neighborhoods it served used to be marginal so the MTA didn't mind cutting the shit out of it. I'm surprised it hasn't gotten better now that the neighborhoods have. Anyway, I ride during the day and during the week and most of the lines are great 1-7 are the best. The A and C still look like a crime took place right before you got on. And what is going on with the eating on the subway? F%&*ing chicken bones on the A train? Come on folks