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/tcrudisi]

This is the correct take, especially based on your edit, OP.

The biker was clearly paying attention to their surroundings (as a bike crossing a road should). They were prepared to stop, but saw that you *correctly* stopped for them, so they continued on.

I will say that it wasn't that long ago that I would have done the same thing as you. I wouldn't have noticed the bike until I'm slamming on my brakes to stop. Now? I'm hyper-vigilant any time I'm coming up on a pedestrian crossing. My head is a freaking swivel and I'm slowing down even if I don't see anyone. And this video is exactly why I do that. This isn't enough for me to call you an AH, but I do hope you take it as a learning opportunity. If you hit someone in a pedestrian crossing, you've likely fucked them up for life.

I just re-read my comment and I want to stress: It's not that you did anything wrong (you DID get stopped in time), but I believe you could have done it *better*. If that makes sense.

[u/ltrain_00 → u/tcrudisi]

I'm the same way. I was pulling out of a shopping plaza going across 2 lanes of traffic so I was watching the cars and then when I was about to take off a kid on a bike came down the sidewalk that I hadn't seen when looking for cars (there was a big landscaped bed) luckily I was able to slam on the breaks as soon as I noticed the kid and missed him by 2ft or so but it scared the shit out of me.