At this point, the thread normally jumps the shark and turns to point the finger on the innocent party, based on the notion that some feel their cycling standards are superior.
Consider this... if the video footage of this accident taken from inside the car that pulled into the cyclist's path, would we still be as willing to find fault with the cyclist?
Sure, some are defensive drivers and cyclists, and we just have to take their word for it, that they wouldn't get caught out like this, but all the same, whilst recognising hazards and mitigating circumstances is no doubt of commensurate value, all the same, I've never witnessed anybody cycling with so superior skills, that they would be able to avoid all the accidents I see... like that other example, where the Golf just swerved into a cyclist head on. Even if you were so highly skilled you stopped in time, rarely would people be able to bail out of the way in time, given the driver either hadn't seen the cyclist, or didn't care.
It's one thing to talk about defensive behaviour on the road - which I applaud - but it shouldn't be used as a stick to beat somebody who, in any sense of adjudicating the incidents, and certainly if they weren't cyclists but actually driving cars instead, in the same circumstances, wouldn't be considered as at fault from an official perspective.
At some subtle point, the roles have been reversed, and the discussion has veered off to blaming the victim, as if the driver is just some force of nature that can't be questioned.