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.
1) rights also have responsibilities
2) “as much right to the road as cars” think about that. Are they equal? You put them together and what do you expect except accidents like this.
3) lets put some autos/motorized vehicles on the bike trails then. Equality changes now, doesn’t it?
“as much right to the road as cars” think about that. Are they equal? You put them together and what do you expect except accidents like this.”
The laws in your state were made by the people in your state and if they ignored your opinion and hurt your feelings I am sorry for that, not really.
I don’t give a single damn if you are butt-hurt because you think the laws are stupid. Blame your neighbors and state politicians, but I had nothing to do with it.
If I followed your way of thinking small cars with 4 lug nuts per tire would have less rights on the road then big pickups, F-350’s, with six lug nuts per tire.
Then we could all say together, “He with the most lug nuts wins”. It is still true true but both VEHICLES, had their own rights to the highway no matter what you think.
A bicycle by law is a vehicle and has the rights, in some specific locations limited rights, to be on the roadways. This is true in most of our states. It is the law in most of our states.
I would not have been riding a bicycle on that highway. I would have been in my F-350 but I would have been watching out for all other vehicles that legally share that highway.
I wonder how many times a SUCCESSFUL argument has been made from the large vehicle driver that the little car/motorcycle/bicycle “VEHICLE” is hard to see and should not have been on the road to begin with.
When you are in control of a vehicle on our public highways and you hit something that has a right to be in that roadway, you own it lock stock and barrel.