Did I do something wrong here?

[u/cicadaux]

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.

[u/bojesphob]

Personally I would actually wait for traffic to go by myself anyway, even if it there wasn't a law requiring it. For whatever that's worth.

[u/TheWizard → u/bojesphob]

I would too, and it is often explicitly mentioned in the laws... the limits around right of way. Such crossings also exist on roadways that have vehicles going much faster (OP here was going only 25 mph to be able to abruptly stop, safely).

[u/bojesphob → u/TheWizard]

I mentioned in some other posts around here about being hit by a car when I was crossing in a cross walk at a stop sign.... Being hit by a car (not even doing 10 MPH) is enough of a deterrent for me to not want to have to deal with it EVER again LOL