If you're talking about distractions, then we should also consider cell phones, fast food, conversation and ICE/GPS as potential killers too.

You bet. I'd be more than happy if drivers were banned from using a cell phone. I was nearly plastered by a woman yakking on the phone. I was saved by the fact that it takes longer to rollerblade across 2 lanes of a 4 lane street than it did for her to run the red light. She stopped in the middle of the intersection and shrugged at me. Then there was the time a guy rolled through a stop sign and into the middle of the crosswalk that I was currently in (missing me by about a foot). He was on the phone, too. You should have seen him jump when I slammed the shoes I was carrying on his trunk -- he followed me for 10 minutes, until I cut through the University of Toronto campus, where he couldn't follow in his car with a dented trunk.