Originally Posted by
Tober1
Clearly the left turners fault. You have to make sure street/lane/bridge you're turning on to is free. If you turn and it's not free and you have to stop in the middle of the oncoming lanes then you're legally a dummy.
You could have slowed and let him go ahead, but in the end he/she should have made sure there was no one coming.
Whoa, you're adding details that the OP hasn't supplied. Based on his report, it sounds to me like he took his green light as carte-blanche to proceed across the intersection, regardless of what the opposing traffic was doing. It's absolutely plausible to assume, based on the OP's post, that he entered the intersection while the left-turner still had the legal right to complete a turn.
I know it's all well and fine to assume that the biker is never in the wrong, but it really sounds like a shared-responsibility issue to me.