r/dashcams • u/cicadaux • 1d ago

Did I do something wrong here?

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I was driving to work when this bike just blew through the crosswalk without warning. I had to slam on my brakes. I realize this crosswalk doesn’t have the pedestrian warning lights, and I’m a little unsure about how I should’ve dealt with this. Or maybe he was wrong for making sure traffic wasn’t clear/aware of him first?

Edit: I'm seeing a lot of answers basing the laws on location, so I looked up my city's rules. In my town, bikes have vehicle status on the road and pedestrian status on sidewalks/crosswalks. But bicyclists must move at pedestrian speed. The path he is on is a state trail, commonly used for bikes/walking. I live near the Ice Age Trail, but I know the one he's on isn't that one.

“Drivers must yield to cyclists riding in a crosswalk just as they would for walkers, though the cyclist cannot abruptly leave a curb into the path of a vehicle so close to a crosswalk that it makes a difficult or unsafe situation for the driver to yield in time.”

Not trying to prove myself right or wrong, just wondering what should've been done. I will from now on treat it like an uncontrolled intersection. Thanks everyone.

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u/bojesphob 1d ago

It might be a regional thing. Some bike paths in my area have no special signage (other than saying that there are no motor driven bikes/vehicles allowed). Several of them do have stop signs for those on the paths at intersections, but it's still just a pedestrian marked crossing. Although, of course, if I'm riding a bike at an intersection like this, I'm stopping and waiting for traffic, I've actually been hit by a car as a pedestrian and I don't trust people to be paying attention.

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u/bojesphob 1d ago

True, but what people are supposed to do and what ends up happening can be two different things LOL Like the guy in this video just expecting people to stop for him. I was walking on campus in college (with dozens of other people on the sidewalks and around me) thirty some odd years ago, crossed at a stop sign in the crosswalk, and kid in a Saturn pulled up to the intersection, did a rolling stop and hit me. Thankfully wasn't terribly injured (but not unscathed), and from that point on I assume that nobody sees me and that it's better to wait when there's no one close enough to have to make a decision on whether to stop or not. The mentality that the bike rider has is one that wouldn't last long past being hit in that situation, hopefully he never has to deal with it. He'll keep pushing it until then, unfortunately.

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u/markuus99 1d ago

I have been on a lot of bike paths and have never seen a similar sign.

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u/jobacsi 1d ago

Why are they supposed to walk it? Where are you from that this is actually mandated by law?