Originally Posted by Daily Commute
Maybe the cyclist was wrong, but the police are giving advice to cyclists that is dangerous and illegal. Cyclists belong in the road, not a crosswalk.
Hopefully, they'll do a follow up.
I agree. Closetbiker also nailed it: the advice by authorities was bad, and I inferred from the article, "That's what you get for riding a bike in the street." No information shed any light on what the cyclist did wrong, other than, "riding a bike."
The "reading public" is too easily satisfied without details. If it were a car crash, every reader would ask themselves, "How did this crash ["accident"] happen?"