I think you might want to back down a little until the body count catches up.  There's a huge difference between collisions that involve a car and those that don't.  One is responsible for 30,000+ deaths per year in the USA, and the other so few they're not counted in the statistics.  

I'm not suggesting the cyclist was being polite here, but he didn't endanger anyone's life the way cars do.  This problem is nothing more than an annoyance.