This has evolved into two topics at once, maybe three.
The first and main one is about the fairly recent concept of changing the meanings of words. It's a disturbing trend that requires pushback. It can only get worse when left alone.
Violence is intentional, plain and simple. Negligence, while still wrong and shouldn't be excused, it not intentional in the same way.
As a guy who worked in a body shop for nearly a decade, I can say that I never use the term accident, when referring to car crashes. Most of them are not. Negligence, ignorance, carelessness, whatever you want to call it, most are very preventable.
The bicycle thing is quite another matter. As a guy who commuted to work every day, until the company moved too far for it, I have lots of experience with road cycling. There are a lot of bad cyclists out there and they do so much to hurt the good. I see these every day; riding without lights pre-dawn, riding on the wrong side of the road, riding on the sidewalk, total disregard for the law and their own safety. Yet they would be the first ones to cry, if something did go wrong.
Cars play their own role in this too. They refuse to recognize that bicycles are legally allowed to be on the road, they are part of traffic too, which is why they have to obey the laws surrounding road use.
Cars don't see bicycles as something to "pass", like another car. They are something to "go around" as if it was debris in the road. These are very different actions.
Because I am in a large metro area, we have a fairly decent bike trail system which is completely off-limits to cars. However, it does not go everywhere and sometimes utilizes city streets to connect sections of it.
Here it is totally illegal for adults to ride on the sidewalk ever.
