-Ralph-

A biker being involved means somebody is more likely to have been injured, but I don't think being bikers has anything to do with the strength of feeling. Show me any decent human being who wouldn't be disgusted by the example above of a pedestrian in wales being struck by 4 different cars. No motorbikes involved.

I don't know what happened to those drivers, but each one thought they had killed the pedestrian. Did they commit a minor offence? Failing to stop is not a minor traffic offence IMO, especially where the driver suspects someone has been injured.

If somebody knocked me off my motorbike, or ran me over in the street, unless the happen to be a paramedic, it wont make a lot of odds in most circumstances whether they stop or not, the damage to me is already done. If they drove off and somebody else turns up to help me, it makes no odds to me. They should still be bought to account on the basis of what it says about them.

What if it is the middle of the night on a quiet country road and you end up lying somewhere just out of sight critically injured and in pain, where over the next few hours you suffer a painful death. Has that hit and run driver committed a minor offence, or has he left another human being to die?

May sound dramatic, but forget cancer, the motor vehicle is the worlds biggest killer bar none, more people have died as a result of being in road accidents than anything else.