Well, Matt, they can run you down on the sidewalk too:

From today's (12/9/2005) Marietta Daily Journal http://www.mdjonline.com/95/10203704.txt

Bicyclist struck, killed by garbage truck

Friday, December 9, 2005 3:04 AM EST
From staff reports

KENNESAW - A 34-year-old bicyclist was killed Thursday in a collision with a dump truck.

The accident happened at 1:17 p.m. Thursday at the Exxon gas station at 550 Ernest Barrett Parkway.

According to the Cobb County police, Thomas E. Williams, 34, of Kennesaw was riding his bicycle on the sidewalk westbound on Barrett Parkway when he began to cross the entrance drive to the Exxon gas station. At the same time, a maroon 2006 dual axle dump truck was turning into the entrance drive. At the last moment, the bicyclist locked up his front wheel to avoid the truck, and when he fell to the ground the truck ran over him.

Williams was taken to WellStar Kennestone Hospital, but was pronounced dead.

Police do not expect to file any charges against the driver of the dump truck, Mack Chatmon, 53, of Cartersville.

and another:

SIDEWALK BICYCLIST KILLED
On Tuesday, Dec. 2, 68-year-old James Costello, a retired NYC police detective and resident of Hicksville, LI, was riding his bicycle on the sidewalk in neighboring East Meadow when a car jumped the curb and struck him. Costello was killed instantly. The driver, a 28-year-old woman who also lived in Hicksville, was not charged; the story received little attention and the driver is not being sought by the police.

and more:

A 51-year-old bicyclist was killed Tuesday when he hit was by a pickup that crossed the center of the road then slammed into a tree.

Antonio Dukes, the driver of the vehicle, was taken to LSU Hospital in Shreveport with injuries that aren't believed to be life-threatening, police said.

The dead man, who hasn't been identified pending notification of next of kin, was a New Orleans evacuee.

Witnesses told police that Dukes, 18, was eastbound in the 3700 block of Greenwood Road """" weaving in and out of traffic """""" just before 1 p.m. when he lost control of the dark blue Chevrolet and it crossed three lanes of traffic. The pickup struck the cyclist on the sidewalk before going through a fence and crashing into a tree at a nearby cemetery.

Marsha Jenkins was sitting on her front porch when the accident happened.

"He hit him. He went up. He came down and the truck went through the fence. It was just horrible," Jenkins, 50, said. "It happened so quick, the man on the bike didn't know what happened. There is no way he could have gotten out of the way."

And they can kill pedestrians too: (from the NY Times)

A fast-food deliveryman who was riding his bicycle on the sidewalk on the Upper West Side on Tuesday night struck and killed a 68-year-old businessman who was leaving a restaurant, the police said.

The accident prompted Mayor Rudolph W. Giuliani to order the police to step up enforcement of traffic rules for bicyclists, and led to renewed calls for stricter laws against reckless cyclists.

The victim in the latest incident, Arthur Kaye of Fort Lee, N.J., was leaving the Scaletta Ristorante on West 77th Street near Columbus Avenue at 9:20 P.M. when he was knocked down and killed by a deliveryman illegally riding his bicycle on the sidewalk, the police said.

The deliveryman, identified as Eduardo Delossantos, 24, who works for the Chirping Chicken restaurant on Amsterdam Avenue near 77th Street, was given a summons at the scene for riding without commercial identification, said Detective Robert Samuels, a police spokesman.

The Police Department's accident investigation squad took over the case yesterday, and police officials said that they were weighing more serious charges against Mr. Delossantos and expected that at the very least he would be given a summons for riding his bicycle on the sidewalk.

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Subject: [hawaiibicyclists] They May Kill You If You Do Not Watch Your Ass

http://www.thedenverchannel.com/news/5404020/detail.html
http://www.thedenverchannel.com/news/5449867/detail.html
http://www.thedenverchannel.com/news/6804782/detail.html

Get up on the sidewalks before you die like dogs with helmets on, grinning
your heads off in the bike lane with a Warm Fuzzy Secure Bike-Lane Feeling
while Ignorant Children run you down while typing on the cell phones their
daddies got them to go with their SUVs for their 16th birthdays...

I bet the Dead Old Bastard in the stories in this series wishes he had been
up on the sidewalk... They can Write You a Million Tickets but they can only
Kill You Once.

Story follows (this is the Outcome, the last of the three links above):

CASTLE ROCK, Colo. -- A teenager who was text messaging when he lost control
of his vehicle and struck and killed a cyclist has pleaded guilty to
careless driving causing death.

Douglas County sheriff's Lt. Alan Stanton said that Jim R. Price, 63, was
riding his bicycle in a bicycle path Nov. 23 when he was hit by the teen's
car near Wildcat Reserve Parkway and Summit View.

District attorney spokeswoman Kathleen Walsh said the 17-year-old was
sentenced to four years probation. He will not be allowed to operate a motor
vehicle or possess a cell phone during that time.

The teen will be in home detention, be required to wear an ankle bracelet,
and serve nine days in jail.

The teen must also perform 300 hours of community service, pay $2,600 in
fines and court costs.

-Sidewalk Matt