Reading this article reminds me of an incident from 1994. Back when I was a member of the Gopher Wheelmen racing team I was on our usual Tuesday or Thursday training ride. We were riding north on Victoria in Roseville where the Roseville Estates home is now located; we were on a ~10 foot wide shoulder and I happened to be the last rider in the line. Everyone was well off from the traffic lane with at least six feet of clearance from passing vehicles. A car going the same way as us was stopped to turn left into a parking lot at the Lake Ridge nursing home; another driver passed us and rear-ended the stopped car right in front of us. As witnesses we stayed to check out the vehicle occupants and waited for the police to arrive. When the officer arrived, the driver of the striking car began yelling and blaming us for the accident because we we "all over the road" and distracted her. The officer, a heavy set middle aged guy who seemed unlikely to ride a bike himself, stopped her and said "they can have the whole lane if they need it. It's your job to pay attention, to control your car and not run into people." He wrote her a citation for careless driving, got our names as witnesses, thanked us and told us to have a good ride.
Some cops know the law as it pertains to cyclists, some don't- just like drivers (and bicyclists!). I'm glad to see this article in their professional journal. Tim -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "RBW Owners Bunch" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to rbw-owners-bunch+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to rbw-owners-bunch@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
