>>Police are looking for an elderly, white, gray-haired man who, in an apparent fit of road rage, chased a bicyclist onto a golf course in Santa Rosa and ran him down.<<
I am not going to say he deserved it, but many bicyclists are a-holes who think their minimized status deserves maximized protection.
Think back to the cyclist who got hurt when a car driver hit his brakes. Bicycles are vehicles and if a vehicle follows too closely it SHOULD be the vehicle in back at fault. But the court found otherwise. And, IMHO wrongly so.
My agitation comes from the fact that our federal highway dollars are funneled into paying for paved bike trails as whole lanes on busy roads are being converted into bike lanes.