You sure about that? Many of the close calls I’ve had as both a pedestrian and a cyclist, the car driver seems pretty sure it was my fault.

Of course the driver of the vehicle is going to say that. Otherwise they would have to admit they fucked up.

That’s not a comparable situation though to what I’m talking about. Your example is about the driver of the vehicle in question, not someone reading about an event later that wasn’t involved. To an uninvolved third party, they’re not going to say that a pedestrian is at fault most of the time when it’s just a car versus pedestrian. They’re going to assume the driver of the death mobile was the issue.