Comment by danieldk

This might sound far fetched but my friends in the UK police deal with pedestrians who throw themselves in front of slow moving vehicles in an attempt to get a damages claim.

Interesting. I haven't really heard of such issues here much. How it works here:

- The car is responsible: the car driver has to pay 100% of the damage.

- The cyclist or pedestrian is responsible: the car driver has to pay at least 50% of the damage.

- For kids up till 14, the car driver is always 100% responsible for the damage.

I guess this helps, because for the cyclist there is always a risk of being partially responsible if you intentionally cycle into a car. At the same time, since the car driver is always responsible for damages (50% or up, depending on the blame), they are more careful by default.

IANAL, but: https://www.brugmanletselschadeadvocaten.nl/fietsongeluk/#:~...