you may be interested to read about the Cooper Jones death here in WA. Cooper was a Jr Olympic hopeful, who was hit from behind by a little old lady with the sun in her eyes, who evidently didn't read the "riders on road" signs put on the road by the cycleing cub. He died on the side of the road. Anyway, the lady was fined $250 and not even required to take a driver's liscense retest. The whole thing prompted a reexamination of the laws in this state.

http://www.baddlands.org/cooper_jones/background.htm