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Comment on Cycling and the Law: Cars Approaching from Behind by Ann Groninger

Ann Groninger — Tue, 24 Jan 2012 15:22:16 +0000

Carl,
Unfortunately, that happens WAY too often. As bicycle lawyers, we work on building relationships with police departments so we have someone to go to when officers make the wrong call. Ultimately, it’s the decision of the police department whether to charge, but having those contacts can help. I’ve handled plenty of cases in Raleigh and used to live there so please call me any time you need help!

Comment on Cycling and the Law: Cars Approaching from Behind by Carl Bush

Carl Bush — Tue, 24 Jan 2012 03:08:01 +0000

A few years ago I was hit from behind while riding my bike. The car crushed my rear wheel. I did not go down but the bike was wrecked. Lady fled the scene of the crime. Raleigh PD found her. Raleigh PD refused to charge her with hit and run or leaving the scene of an accident. They also wrote up the accident report that it was my fault. I should not have been there riding. We were the only vehicles on a 5 lane C&G section.

Comment on Asheville jury latches onto contrib law by Alton Terron

Alton Terron — Sat, 03 Dec 2011 22:12:59 +0000

Great site. Found it the other day because of a friend who emailed me about a certain mayor. Keep up the good work.

Comment on South Carolina Bicycle Laws by Steve Gross

Steve Gross — Tue, 22 Nov 2011 01:56:33 +0000

John…did you even read the code? Specifically 56-5-3420. Entitled to all the rights and duties! Geez. And 56-5-30? A cyclest is only required to ride as far to the right as the cyclist deems PRACTICAL. If two cars and a bike cannot fit on the road surface provided you can bet that the practical cyclist who wants to live will force the autos to accommodate his right to be there. If you don’t like it widen the roads or change the law. Don’t be so narrow minded as to feel that the cyclist has to get out of the AUTO’S way.

Comment on South Carolina Bicycle Laws by Preston

Preston — Tue, 08 Nov 2011 17:07:41 +0000

John you are dumb. I ride a bike all over the midlands. We do not feel we are entitled to a lane of traffif but if we dont force the cars around us then they just about kill us. It is scary to have a huge SUV fly by you a few inches away from you. So chill out and give them a wide birm.

Comment on S.C. DRIVER CONVICTED OF FELONY FOR KILLING CYCLIST by Hans Drolshagen

Hans Drolshagen — Tue, 08 Nov 2011 03:05:02 +0000

http://fabb-bikes.blogspot.com/2011/08/cyclists-paved-way-for-roads_15.html

Comment on 7 Things You Should Know About a Cycling Lawyer – by Fred Sexton by Lost art of the group ride » red spoke cycling

Lost art of the group ride » red spoke cycling — Mon, 31 Oct 2011 13:09:53 +0000

[...] no one is in charge, and the chaotic group has no idea of how to ride together. As a bike lawyer, I get the complaints from irritated drivers, concerned police, controversy-seeking journalists, [...]

Comment on S.C. DRIVER CONVICTED OF FELONY FOR KILLING CYCLIST by Chris

Chris — Fri, 21 Oct 2011 20:22:29 +0000

I ride a bike and I agree, the driver should be held responsible for accidentally causing the deaths of the people on bikes, but it should be no different than if he had accidentally killed people in cars or people on foot.
I have sympathy for the victims and their families, it’s a horrible thing that happened. But, if it was an accident, it should be treated as an accident, if it was intentional, it should be treated as murder. There should be no bias because a bike involved.
Like I said, I ride a bike, but I don’t understand the adversarial relationship between many bicyclists and drivers. Many in the biking community seem irrationally biased against drivers and want to immediately brand them a “murderer”, if they were involved in an accident with a bicyclist. Justice is supposed to be blind, not vindictive. I also keep encountering the unhealthy attitude that bicyclists safety is the responsibility of all drivers and none of their own. When I ride, I take my safety very seriously and consider protection of my life 100% my responsibility, since me and my bike are only in the 170 lb range vs cars weighing 2 tons, travel much faster than me and can’t stop on a dime.

Comment on S.C. DRIVER CONVICTED OF FELONY FOR KILLING CYCLIST by Nick Drombosky

Nick Drombosky — Wed, 19 Oct 2011 21:55:05 +0000

Steve Glenn, your ignorance is overwhelming.

In this country, the roads are mostly paid for by income and property taxes. The taxes and fee exclusive to motor vehicle owners rarely even touch the financial side of infrastructure for said vehicles.

Additionally, in much of the country, and pretty much all of the east, many of the roads were not originally designed for cars. Many of them originated as walk paths, horse paths, and rail ways. Roads that were built solely and exclusively for cars are almost always illegal to ride a bike on.

The roads that you allude to have paid for, are paid for by everyone, not just people in cars.

Finally, just like you don’t like people who ride bikes riding on roads that you pay for, I don’t like buffoons, like yourself, using the technological infrastructure I helped pay for. If you want to write ill-educated statements somewhere, build your own internet to spew garbage on–don’t use the one I paid for.

Comment on S.C. DRIVER CONVICTED OF FELONY FOR KILLING CYCLIST by Joe Holmes

Joe Holmes — Wed, 19 Oct 2011 20:21:06 +0000

Steve Glenn, many highways have laws banning cyclists. However most other roads are perfectly legal to ride on. I encourage you to investigate how roads are designed and built- because many civil engineers take bicycles into account. You seem to be unaware of this.

I also think you may be forgetting that most bicycle riders pay taxes like yourself, not only locally but federally and through owning and registering their own cars. If people did not have the option to ride a bike, it could also increase the number of cars on the road. This would increase your own drive times and also the amount we would spend on maintaining those roads.