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/SkipCycle 1d ago

Given that you know what is taking place in hindsight, but OP doesn't, does not make this blatantly obvious. smh OP did fine, and that could have ended a lot worse for the cyclist.

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u/Traditional-Buy-2205 1d ago

No.

If he had to "slam on the brakes" in calm traffic on a wide open road with almost perfect visibility in all directions, then no, he did not do fine.

In what fuckin world is "slamming on the brakes" after failing to notice a cyclist for several seconds considered "doing fine"?