https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2020/12/10/nevada-highway-bike-crash-bicyclists-killed-injured/3885268001/
[Weeks is familiar with the stretch of road where the crash unfolded. On Thursday, he struggled to imagine how the crash happened there.
“That shoulder on the side of that highway is wide enough to fit three cars,” Weeks said. “We don’t really know how somebody managed to get that far off the road. These were all very very experienced cyclists. It’s not like they accidentally rode off and into the road.”
It was not the first time those riders made the trip.
“These are people who ride 10,000 miles a year. Some race professionally,” Weeks said. “How did something like this mistakenly happen?”]
“If they were riding on the shoulder when hit, the truck driver might be facing serious prison time.”
I’m not sure of Nevada’s laws on bicycles but in most states a bike is a legal “VEHICLE” and has rights to part of the road too.
Bikes are usually regulated away from freeways and that kind of traffic but if you look at the pics you can see this is split traffic but not a freeway or anything like it.
If you think about it for a moment, in most states, bikes have to follow the rules of other vehicles because they too are “VEHICLES.”
Some folks have trouble realizing that in most states, while riding where allowed, bike riders have as much right to the road as cars do.
This is why one should never trust news reports. The photos belie this statement. Nowhere is the shoulder wide enough for three cars. Areas of dirt and gravel next to a pavement are not relevant to a story about bicyclists.
