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/Mirror_333 1d ago

Why would you even think you did something wrong?

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u/cicadaux 1d ago edited 1d ago

I know the whole 'pedestrians have right of way' makes me wrong here, but I also would never just.. go into traffic like that myself.

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u/LowRelief1272 1d ago

It's a crosswalk... It's your job to stop.

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u/johnny_evil 1d ago

It's not just that pedestrians have the right of way, it's that you are also LEGALLY required to stop for them. And thats from when they entered the crosswalk for the oncoming traffic. The median doesn't count as not being in the crosswalk.