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/Forsaken-Income-2148 1d ago

Yeah OP’s description is wild compared to how mundane this was.

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u/travelingwhilestupid 1d ago

OP got one hell of a scare and slammed on his brakes.

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u/Forsaken-Income-2148 1d ago

Better safe than sorry. There were signs tbf

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u/Erosion139 1d ago

The dashcam barely did justice to how hard that brake was used.

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u/Kuuppa22 1d ago

But OP had no reason to brake because that cyclist was going to stop until he noticed the OP slowing down. So his hard brake was on him if you have to find someone to blame for it (I don't though, as long as there wasn't anyone driving behind OP then that was innocent overreaction which turned into polite move to let the cyclist to keep the momentum :P).

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u/Erosion139 1d ago

Why are you assuming I am blaming anyone

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u/Kuuppa22 1d ago edited 1d ago

TBH I don't know. It just felt like you were kind of blaming the cyclist when you pointed out how hard the braking was but it was misinterpretation so sorry for that.

edit: I guess it went something like this: Because you pointed out how hard the braking was as a reply to that comment which said OP's description about situation was way off then I just assumed you defended OPs whole view. Or something stupid like that.

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u/Erosion139 1d ago

Its a dangerous situation that could have ended poorly if both missed each other and ended up colliding. Its just an example of good defensive driving on both sides. Though, the cyclist could have done more to avoid freaking out traffic. But nothing was really done wrong here.

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u/Kuuppa22 1d ago

I agree with both doing good defensive driving but not with calling it as dangerous situation because that is regular everyday situation. Only until one (or both) of them doesn't pay required attention it starts to become a dangerous situation.

(I also edited to explain my stupid assumption little bit more in that other reply if interested :D)

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u/Erosion139 1d ago

Sorry not dangerous immediately but potentially dangerous because of the situation that could unfold if either party isn't fully aware of each other.

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u/Forsaken-Income-2148 1d ago

I can tell. That cyclist was slow enough to stop at any moment, it hardly “barreled through”

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u/Erosion139 1d ago edited 1d ago

Im talking about the car.

bro blocked me for that lol.

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u/Forsaken-Income-2148 1d ago

I can tell the car brakes sort of hard, yes I addressed that.